Jones v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2005
Citation profile
59 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 59 later decisions — most recently August 2022 · most notably State v. Wilkins (2006), Baker v. State (2005)
59 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 State v. Williams · Walczak v. State · Maryland v. Kanaras · State v. McKay · Smith v. State
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 59 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“On request of a party or on the court’s own initiative, the jury shall be polled after it has returned a verdict and before it is discharged. If the sworn jurors do not unanimously concur in the verdict, the court may direct the jury to retire for further deliberation, or may discharge the jury if satisfied that a unanimous verdict cannot be reached.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Alford v. State · Colvin v. State““Returning” the verdict in open court mandates an oral announcement of the verdict upon the conclusion of the jury’s deliberations to enable the defendant to exercise the right to poll the jury as to the verdicts. Furthermore, orally announcing each count of the verdict prevents possible confusion during polling and hearkening where there are multiple counts considered by the jury[.] ... [BJecause the jury was not polled and hearkened to that Count in absence of its oral announcement, the verdict of guilt cannot stand and any sentence apportioned thereto must be vacated. We hold that Jones’s sentence [on the unannounced charge] is an illegal sentence.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“`The verdict is the unanimous decision made by a jury and reported to the court, on the matters lawfully submitted to them in the course of a trial.' Unanimity is indispensable to the sufficiency of the verdict.”
2 later decisions 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.