Jones v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
1960
Citation profile
4,529 federal appellate · 489 district · 4,371 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11,016 later decisions (171 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2025 · most notably Illinois v. Gates (1983), Wong Sun v. United States (1963)
4,529 federal appellate · 489 district · 4,371 state decisions — followed in 50 states
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. A case is still cited after being overruled — to note the reversal, distinguish it, or in dissent. 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedJones v. United States (from District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Brinegar v. United States · Draper v. United States · Nardone v. United States · Agnello v. United States
Cited together with Aguilar v. Texas · Spinelli v. United States · Draper v. United States · United States v. Ventresca · Brinegar 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 11,016 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In order to qualify as a “person aggrieved by an unlawful search and seizure” one must have been a victim of a search or seizure, one against whom the search was directed, as distinguished from one who claims prejudice only through the use of evidence gathered as a consequence of a search or seizure directed at someone else.”
251 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“that the warrant was defective because [the officer's] informants were not produced, because his affidavit did not even state their names, and [the officer] did not undertake ... his own independent investigation of the claims made by his informants,”
29 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“judicially competent or persuasive character than would have justified an officer in acting on his own without a warrant,”
9 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.