Jones v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1947
Citation profile
31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently September 2015 · most notably Commonwealth v. English (1999), Sanders v. Commonwealth (1990)
31 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 Jenkins v. Commonwealth · Brashear v. Commonwealth · Thomas v. Commonwealth · Wallace v. Commonwealth · Alford v. Commonwealth
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is a well-known fundamental rule that evidence that a defendant on trial had committed other offenses is never admissible unless it comes within certain exceptions, which are as well defined as the rule itself.... The rule of admissibility is one that should be closely watched and strictly enforced because of the dangerous quality and prejudicial consequences of such evidence.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“tends to show the party knew or intended to do what he was doing on the particular occasion.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.