Commonwealth v. Jones’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
28
cited by 28 later decisions
3
states following
November 1987
most recently cited
28 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Clewis v. Texas · Commonwealth v. McCusker · Commonwealth v. Demmitt · People v. Isby · Commonwealth v. Banks
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“. . . [d]oes the evidence offered render the desired inference more probable than it would be without the evidence? . . . Relevant evidence then, is evidence that in some degree advances the inquiry, and thus has probative value, and is prima facie admissible.”
1 later decision 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.