Jones v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently December 2017
19 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 Strickland v. Washington · Lawrence v. State · Clark v. State · Spaulding v. International Bakers Services, Inc. · Sanders 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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A statute should not be viewed as if the reader is peering at it through a keyhole. It must be read with its companions.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“cannot fault trial counsel for not pursuing that potential witness.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. D.D.K. v. State · DDK v. State“SECTION 3. (a) The addition of Ind. Code § 35-50-2-7 .1 and the amendment of Ind. Code § 35-50-2-8 by this act do not affect any: (1) rights or liabilities accrued; (2) penalties incurred; or (3) proceedings begun; before September 1, 1985. The rights, liabilities, and proceedings are continued and punishments, penalties, or forfeitures shall be imposed and enforced under Ind. Code § 35-50-2-8 as if this act had not been enacted. (b) If all of the felonies that are relied upon for sentencing a person as an habitual offender under Ind. Code § 35-50-2-8 are felonies that were committed before September 1,1985, the felonies shall be prosecuted and remain punishable under Ind. Code § 35-50-2-8 as if this act had not been enacted.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Johnson 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.