United States v. Jones’s Empirical Analysis
32 F.3d 1512 · 1994
Citation profile
53 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 97 later decisions — most recently September 2024 · most notably Evans v. State (1997), State v. Osie (Slip Opinion) (2014)
53 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 2 · 18 U.S.C. § 924
Relies on Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Arizona v. Fulminante · Stinson v. United States · United States v. Dunnigan · Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Corp. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc.
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 97 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Jones and his accomplices restricted their victims’ mobility and capacity to observe events to facilitate the robbery. Although no threats were made, the obvious presence of handguns ensured the victims’ compliance and effectively prevented them from leaving the room for a brief period while the robbers fled the scene.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“depends on whether, under all the surrounding circumstances, the statement was the product of the accused's 'free and rational' choice,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“physically restrained means the forcible restraint of the victim such as by being tied, bound or locked up.”
2 later decisions 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.