State v. Jones’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
48 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently October 2018 · most notably State v. Porter (1981), State v. Parton (1981)
48 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on North Carolina v. Pearce · Mullaney v. Wilbur · Harris v. New York · Hankerson v. North Carolina · State v. Hankerson
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]here the charge as a whole presents the law fairly and clearly to the jury, the fact that isolated expressions, standing alone, might be considered erroneous affords no grounds for a reversal.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“Second degree murder is the unlawful killing of a human being with malice but without premeditation and deliberation. Voluntary manslaughter is the unlawful killing of a human being without malice and without premeditation and deliberation. ❖ * * * . . . Therefore, in order for you to find the defendant guilty of murder in the first or second degree, the State must prove beyond a reasonable doubt, among other things, that the defendant did not act in self-defense; or, failing this, that the defendant was the aggressor with the intent to kill or inflict serious bodily harm upon the deceased. If the State fails to prove either that the defendant did not act in self-defense or was the aggressor with the intent to kill or inflict serious bodily harm, you may not convict the defendant of either first or second degree murder; but you may convict the defendant of voluntary manslaughter if the State proved that the defendant was simply the aggressor without murderous intent in bringing on the fight in which the deceased was killed or that the defendant used excessive force. * * * * ... In order for you to find the defendant guilty of second degree murder, the State must prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant unlawful, [sic] intentionally and with malice killed the victim with a deadly weapon, thereby proximately causing his death; and that the defendant did not act in self-defense or if the defendant did act in self-defense, that he was the aggressor with the intent to ki”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Martin
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.