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Jones v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis

2012

Citation profile

5
cited by 5 later decisions
1
states following
March 2018
most recently cited

5 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Commonwealth v. Barros

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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “the petitioner has [or had] other means by which to seek review of his claim that his sentence ... is illegal-in his direct appeal and in his rule 30 (a) motion and any appeal from the denial of that motion.”
    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.