398 So. 2d 1049 - State v. Jones’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
876 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 880 later decisions — most recently May 2019 · most notably 419 So. 2d 475 - State v. Lanclos (1982), State v. Bradford (1997)
876 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 Santobello v. New York · 374 So. 2d 1195 - State v. Spencer · 360 So. 2d 842 - State v. Jackson · 344 So. 2d 1039 - State v. Frank · 363 So. 2d 425 - State v. Neitte
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 880 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Maximum sentences are appropriately imposed in cases involving the most serious violations of the described offense, and for the worst kind of offender.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Moore · State v. Legendre“when a plea rests in any significant degree on a promise or agreement of the prosecutor, so that it can be said to be part of the inducement or consideration, such promise must be fulfilled.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“Sentences must be individualized to be compatible with the offenders as well as the offenses.”
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.