Jones v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

4 federal appellate · 2 district · 195 state decisions

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 201 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “If the words of the statute, construed according to their common and everyday meaning, are clear and unambiguous and express a plain meaning, we will give effect to the statute as it is written.”

   4 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Junek v. St. Mary's Cnty. Dep't of Soc. Servs. · Chesek v. Jones

2. “"(c) Third conviction of crime of violence.—Except as provided in subsections (f) and (g) of this section, any person who (1) has been convicted on two separate occasions of a crime of violence where the convictions do not arise from a single incident, and (2) has served at least one term of confinement in a correctional institution as a result of a conviction of a crime of violence, shall be sentenced, on being convicted a third time of a crime of violence, to imprisonment for the term allowed by law, but, in any event, not less than 25 years. The court may not suspend all or part of the mandatory 25-year sentence required under this subsection, and the person shall not be eligible for parole except in accordance with the provisions of § 4-305 of the Correctional Services Article. A separate occasion shall be considered one in which the second or succeeding offense is committed after there has been a charging document filed for the preceding occasion."”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Green

3. ““the penological objectives of statutes such as § 643B(e) which mandate the extended incarceration of recidivist criminals [are] to provide warning to those persons who have previously been convicted of criminal offenses that the commission of future offenses will be more harshly punished, and to impose the extended period of incarceration upon those who fail to heed that warning so as to protect society from violent recidivist offenders.” See, e.g., Gargliano v. State, 334 Md. 428, 442-45 [ 639 A.2d 675 ] (1994); Jones v. State, 324 Md. 32, 38 [ 595 A.2d 463 ] (1991); Minor v. State, 313 Md. 573, 576 [ 546 A.2d 1028 ] (1988); Hawkins v. State, 302 Md. 143, 148 [ 486 A.2d 179 ] (1985); Garrett v. State, 59 Md.App. 97, 118 [ 474 A.2d 931 ], cert. denied, 300 Md. 483 [ 479 A.2d 372 ] (1984).”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 220 Md. App. 27 - Williams v. State