State v. Jones’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently November 2011
1 federal appellate · 15 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 Skipper v. South Carolina · California v. Brown · Venturi v. California · State v. Copeland · State v. Adams
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Petitioner's second claim is that the execution of a mentally retarded person constitutes cruel and unusual punishment.... Petitioner cites no authority for his contention, and we can fine none. Mental retardation does not constitute insanity or incapacity to know the difference between right and wrong. It is only the latter disability, not the former, that serves as a defense to conviction and also to punishment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Jones“render a just verdict based on the evidence adduced at trial, without regard to any preconceived ideas.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Jones“allow yourselves to be governed by sympathy, prejudice, by passion or by public opinion.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Jones
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.