Jones v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

10 state decisions

Most-quoted passages

The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “Assuming but not deciding, that appellant’s testimony was sufficient to raise the reasonable doubt of his sanity, the trial court in passing on this question pointed out that the defendant pled not guilty by reason of temporary insanity. After this plea the state in developing its case, rebutted insanity by showing by its witnesses appellant acted in a normal manner after he was arrested and his actions were the same as they had been before the murder. . . The issue of temporary insanity was submitted to the jury under proper instructions and the jury found that appellant was not temporarily insane when he murdered his wife. We thoroughly discussed the issue raised by this assignment of error in the very recent case of Herron v. State, Miss., 287 So.2d 759 , decided January 7, 1974, and deem it unnecessary to repeat here what was said in that case. ( 288 So.2d at 835 ).”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Hogan v. State

2. “Appellant's first assignment of error is in reality not an assignment of error. Appellant does not charge that the trial court committed any error in regard to the instruction granted on the issue of insanity. Appellant admits that what he is striving for under this assignment is an opinion of this Court abandoning the M'Naughten rule, or at least to follow what he contends is the true M'Naughten rule. 288 So.2d at 834 .”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 361 So. 2d 333 - Collins v. State