Jones v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
53 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 53 later decisions — most recently June 1993 · most notably Vanderbilt v. State (1981), Brown v. State (1971)
53 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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Johnson v. State of New Jersey · Mathis v. United States · Orozco v. Texas · 87 Tex. Crim. 330 - Taylor 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 53 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"In Jones v. State, [ 442 S.W.2d 698, 702 ] supra, this court stated: "`It is not necessary that every fact point independently and directly to the guilt of a defendant. It is enough if the conclusion of guilt is warranted by combined and cumulative force of all incriminating circumstances. Parish v. State, 85 Tex.Cr.R. 75 , 209 S.W. 678 ; Finch v. State, 89 Tex.Cr.R. 363 , 232 S.W.2d 528 .' "Further, in Taylor v. State, 87 Tex. Cr.R. 330, 221 S.W. 611 at 615 , it was stated: "`The rules of circumstantial evidence do not require that the circumstances should to a moral certainty actually exclude every hypothesis that the act may have been committed by another person, but the hypothesis intended is a reasonable one consistent with the circumstances and facts proved, and the supposition that the act may have been committed by another person must not be out of harmony with the evidence. Shultz v. State, 13 Tex. 401 ; Hamlin v. State, 39 Tex.Cr.R. [579] 606, 47 S.W. 656 ; Porch v. State, 50 Tex.Cr.R. 335 , 99 S. W. 102 .'"”
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Frison v. State · Reynolds v. State
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.