Jones v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 1 district · 152 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 162 later decisions — most recently December 2018 · most notably Hardwick v. State (1988), 740 So. 2d 520 - Jones v. State (1999)
4 federal appellate · 1 district · 152 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 Chapman v. State of California · Faretta v. California · Illinois v. Allen · United States v. Hasting · Bowsher v. Merck & Co.
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 162 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] defendant may not manipulate the proceedings by willy-nilly leaping back and forth between the choices [of self-representation and appointed counsel].”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]he record affirmatively shows that Faretta was literate, competent, and understanding, and that he was voluntarily exercising his informed free will.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“to represent defendant in the event it became necessary ... [to remove] him from the courtroom”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Lacey · People v. Cohn
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.