Jones v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
308 F.2d 307 · 1962
Citation profile
21 federal appellate · 27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions — most recently March 2024 · most notably United States v. Dellinger (1972), United States v. Sabhnani (2010)
21 federal appellate · 27 state decisions — followed in 14 states
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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 4
Relies on Shields v. United States · Williams v. United States · Craig v. State · McGuinn v. United States
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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[F]irst, where a statute imposes a duty to care for another; second, where one stands in a certain status relationship to another; third, where one has assumed a contractual duty to care for another; and fourth, where one has voluntarily assumed the care of another and so secluded the helpless person as to prevent others from rendering aid.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he problem of establishing the duty to take action which would preserve the life of another has not often arisen in the case law of this country,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“assumed the care of the child and secluded him from the care of his mother, his natural protector.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.