Jones v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently May 2016 · most notably Hall v. State (2007), Bigley v. State (1993)
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 Garcia v. State · Boothe v. State · Bowie v. State · Morales v. State · 166 Tex. Crim. 267 - White v. State
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"(1) `Habitation' means a structure or vehicle that is adapted for the overnight accommodation of persons, and includes: "(A) each separately secured or occupied portion of the structure or vehicle; and "(B) each structure appurtenant to or connected with the structure or vehicle."”
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Salas v. State · Moss v. State““ ‘Habitation’ is broader than ‘building’ in that it includes vehicles that are ‘adapted for the overnight accommodation of persons,’ Section 30.01(1). ‘Habitation’ also includes garages and other outbuildings, Section 30.01(1)(B), and ‘separately secured and occupied portions’ of a habitation, to cover those who, while legally in an apartment building or hotel, for example, enter another’s room, Section 30.01(1)(A).””
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Salas v. State · Jones v. State“(a) A person commits an offense if, without the effective consent of the owner, he: (1) enters a habitation, or a building (or any portion of a building) not then open to the public, with intent to commit a felony or theft ...”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Bartley v. State · Hargett v. State
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.