Jones v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

1 federal appellate · 49 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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “If two or more persons are jointly engaged in the perpetration of or an attempt to perpetrate a robbery, and a human being is killed during its commission by any one of the persons so jointly engaged, then each of the offenders are equally guilty of the homicide.”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Bear Cloud v. State · Jansen v. State

2. “'There is no form of proof so unreliable as recanting testimony. * * * Those experienced in the administration of the criminal law know well its untrustworthy character,.”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Michael Allan Lindstrom v. State · Garza v. State

3. “The heart of the holding in Brady is the prosecution's suppression of evidence, in the face of a defense production request, where the evidence is favorable to the accused and is material either to guilt or to punishment. Important, then, are (a) suppression by the prosecution after a request by the defense, (b) the evidence's favorable character for the defense, and (c) the materiality of the evidence. * * * [ Moore v. Illinois, ] 408 U.S. [786] at 794-795, 92 S.Ct. [2562] at 2568, 33 L.Ed.2d [706] at 713 [1972].”

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