State v. Jones’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

8 state decisions

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

1. ““ ‘When an improper incident occurs during trial and the jury is instructed to disregard it, “... the reviewing court, in order to hold that the failure to grant a mistrial was reversible error, must determine and conclude as a matter of law from the entire record that the error was prejudicial and so impressive that its effect was not removed by the action of the trial court.” State v. Dennison, 428 S.W.2d 573, 577 (Mo.1968).’ To the same effect see State v. Franklin, 526 S.W.2d 86 [7, 8] (Mo.App.1975).” State v. Jones, 532 S.W.2d 772, 775 (Mo.App.1975).”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Bell

2. ““do not categorically hold the mention of a defendant’s silence ipso facto requires a mistrial. The cases do uphold the general principle it is error to introduce evidence of a defendant’s silence while under arrest, but there are many variables— whether it was defendant or another witness who mentioned his silence, whether defendant refused or merely failed to make a statement, the degree of emphasis placed on that-evidence, its repetition, defense objections thereto and relief requested and the extent of relief granted by the trial court.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Walker