United States v. Jones’s Empirical Analysis
608 F.2d 1004 · 1979
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently January 2014 · most notably 554 So. 2d 887 - Shell v. State (1989), Brown v. State (2004)
20 federal appellate · 12 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 2 · 18 U.S.C. § 3
Relies on Irvin v. Dowd · Swain v. State of Alabama · Ristaino v. Ross · Ohio v. Gallagher · United States v. Allsup
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The fact that a juror or his relative has been the victim of some crime, unrelated to the offense being tried, is, we think, only minimally relevant to the question of that juror's impartiality. Indeed, if the mere fact that a juror or his relative had been the victim of some crime unrelated to that being tried constituted grounds for discharge, it would become difficult, if not impossible, to assemble a jury panel.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[i]t is well established that a trial court has broad discretion in conducting the voir dire of the jury and particularly in phrasing the questions to be asked.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“lay aside his impression or opinion and render a verdict based on the evidence presented in court.”
2 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.