In Re Jones’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently September 2001
20 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
Relies on Robinson v. State of California · 57 Cal. 2d 450 - Auto Equity Sales, Inc. v. Superior Court · 8 Cal. 3d 410 - In Re Lynch · 35 Cal. 2d 175 - People v. Knowles · 6 Cal. 3d 628 - People v. Anderson
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“is so disproportionate to the crime for which it is inflicted that it shocks the conscience and offends fundamental notions of human dignity. [Fn. omitted.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. People v. MacIas“the challenged penalty with the punishments prescribed in the same jurisdiction for different offenses which ... must be deemed more serious”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. People v. MacIas“the nature of the offense and/or the offender, with particular regard to the degree of danger both present to society”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. People v. MacIas
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.