Commonwealth v. Jones’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently June 2017 · most notably State v. Esposito (1992), 477 So. 2d 553 - Hill v. State (1985)
39 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 Estes v. Texas · United States v. Nell · Commonwealth v. Colon · State v. Butts · Commonwealth v. Moore
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“an enforcement officer is capable of professional objectivity in considering the case of a defendant accused of a crime against society.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“In [Moore ] this Court held that it was harmless error to refuse a proper challenge for cause where the proposed juror was excluded by a peremptory challenge and the defense did not exhaust its peremptory challenges. It logically follows from [Moore ] that it is [not harmless] error to force a defendant to use his peremptory challenges on a person who should have been excused for cause and that defendant exhausts those peremptory challenges prior to the seating of the jury.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“1. If a police officer has a ‘real relationship’ to the case, he must automatically be excluded from serving on a criminal jury. 2. If a police officer does not have a ‘real relationship’ to the case, he must be viewed in light of the traditional test for qualifications for jurors with the same scope of appellate review.”
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.