Jones v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 63 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 80 later decisions — most recently July 2023 · most notably Cartwright v. Maynard (1987), Hooks v. Workman (2012)
8 federal appellate · 63 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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 Gregg v. Georgia · Eddings v. Oklahoma · Leland v. Oregon · Chaney v. State · Oxendine 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 80 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]f during the commission of the crime he was suffering from a mental disease or defect rendering him unable to differentiate between right and wrong, or unable to understand the nature and consequences of his acts.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Duckett v. State · Pugh v. State“'[I]nvoluntary intoxication is a complete defense,'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“especially heinous, atrocious, or cruel.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.