Jones v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
256 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 260 later decisions — most recently March 2022 · most notably 171 Ill. 2d 475 - People v. Washington (1996), Summerville v. Warden, State Prison (1994)
256 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 Brady v. State of Maryland · Carnegie v. United States · Brewster v. Derwinski · Dade County v. Lake Lucerne Civic Ass'n · Dade County v. Lake Lucerne Civic Ass'n
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 260 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the newly discovered evidence must be of such nature that it would probably produce an acquittal on retrial.”
43 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“must have been unknown by the trial court, by the party, or by counsel at the time of trial, and it must appear that defendant or his counsel could not have known them by the use of diligence.”
26 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Roberts v. State · Miller v. State“evaluate the weight of both the newly discovered evidence and the evidence which was introduced at the trial.”
26 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.