Jones v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
18
cited by 18 later decisions
2
states following
February 2018
most recently cited
2 federal appellate · 14 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Kliewer v. New Jersey · Jones v. South Carolina · State v. Green · State v. Caldwell
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.
“When challenging a death sentence, a petitioner must show that 'there is a reasonable probability that, absent the errors, the sentencer would have concluded that the balance of aggravating and mitigating circumstances did not warrant death.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Bowman v. State
How this case has been treated — in progress
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