Jones v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
4
cited by 4 later decisions
1
states following
May 1996
most recently cited
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Greene v. Massey · Conner v. State · Cronan v. State · Hindman v. State · Marshall 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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The trial judge has both the power and the duty to require that the jury correct or amend an improper or incomplete verdict.... The trial judge has the right and duty to mold a judgment in accordance with the final verdict returned by the juiy.... But this does not carry, with it the right to substitute for the rendered verdict a judgment that is substantially different. 99”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Jefferson
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.