State v. Jones’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

6 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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““Evidence was at variance as to whether [the defendant] said anything to the victim before firing his gun and in what position [the victim] was when he was shot. It was, however, agreed that [the victim] had struck Karen Thomas knocking her to the floor and that he was bent over her when [the defendant] entered. [[Image here]] “In the subject case, the jury could have found that [the defendant] was drawn to the room by his sister’s screams for assistance and, upon entering, that he found his sister prostrate with [the victim] bending or kneeling and striking the girl with his fists. When [the defendant] yelled for [the victim] to stop, [the victim] rose and started toward [the defendant]. If defendant’s evidence and that of his supporting witnesses were believed, the events occurred in rapid succession with little to differentiate [the victim’s] assault upon Karen Thomas from his transfer of attention to [the defendant]. Intervention by [the defendant] in the former brawl immediately provoked the latter, both being closely intertwined in time and situs. [The defendant] was entitled to the additional instruction on defense of another person enabling the jury to consider both possibilities as justification for the use of deadly force.””

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