United States v. Jones’s Empirical Analysis
477 F.2d 1213 · 1973
Citation profile
21 federal appellate · 2 district · 15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently October 2017 · most notably United States v. Jackson (1974), United States v. Gray (1973)
21 federal appellate · 2 district · 15 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2255 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996) · 28 U.S.C. § 294
Relies on United States v. Wade · Harrington v. California · Brooks v. Tennessee · Wood v. United States · Cella v. United States
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The absence of any evidence tending to show a motive for fabrication coupled with the maturity that the victim demonstrated throughout the proceedings lent inherent credence to her testimony, and while not in and of themselves corroborative, they diminished the "danger of falsification" that is the foundation of the corroboration requirement.... [ Id. at 333, 477 F.2d at 1218.]”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“A juryman might well conjecture that there must have been prior suspicion of the defendant, else why would the police have his photograph. But we cannot push sound principles to untenable extremes.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[N]o magical quantitative balancing test utilizing a `checklist of factors' is either appropriate or workable.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.