Commonwealth v. Jones’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 85 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 89 later decisions — most recently September 2018 · most notably Commonwealth v. Bradshaw (1982), Commonwealth v. Walker (1976)
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 85 state decisions — followed in 11 states
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 United States v. Wade · Stovall v. Denno · Commonwealth v. Fancy · United States v. Williams · Commonwealth v. Makarewicz
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 89 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The police official in charge of the station or other place of detention having a telephone wherein a person is held in custody, shall permit the use of the telephone, at the expense of the arrested person, for the purpose of allowing the arrested person to communicate with his family or friends, or to arrange for release on bail, or to engage the services of an attorney. Any such person shall be informed forthwith upon his arrival at such station or place of detention, of his right to so use the telephone, and such use shall be permitted within one hour thereafter.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[C]ourts should suppress unfavorable evidence gained as a result of denying a defendant the right to use a telephone”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“can show beyond a reasonable doubt that the evidence is untainted by the deprivation of the defendant's rights.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.