Commonwealth v. Jones’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently December 2002 · most notably Commonwealth v. Abu-Jamal (1998), Commonwealth v. Maxwell (1984)
35 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.
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“‘[u]se of [voter registration] lists as the sole source of names for jury duty is constitutionally permissible unless this system results in the systematic exclusion of a “cognizable group or class of qualified citizens.” ’ And a group of persons who have failed to register to vote has never been considered to constitute a ‘cognizable group.’”
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.