United States v. Jones’s Empirical Analysis
34 F.3d 596 · 1994
Citation profile
51 federal appellate · 5 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 71 later decisions — most recently June 2019 · most notably United States v. Bishop (1995), United States v. Duke (1995)
51 federal appellate · 5 district · 7 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. § 2119 · 18 U.S.C. § 924
Relies on Brady v. State of Maryland · North Carolina v. Pearce · Giglio v. United States · Missouri v. Hunter · Whalen 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 71 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Whoever, during and in relation to any crime of violence or drug trafficking crime (including a crime of violence or drug trafficking crime which provides for an enhanced punishment if committed by the use of a deadly or dangerous weapon or device) for which he may be prosecuted in a court of the United States, uses or carries a firearm, shall, in addition to the punishment provided for such crime ... be sentenced to imprisonment for five years....”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“affirmative duty to take action to discover information which it does not possess.... The prosecutor has no duty to undertake a fishing expedition ... in an effort to find impeaching evidence.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“with instructions to reinstate [Jones's] conviction on that count and to sentence [Jones] thereunder.”
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.