Jones v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently July 2019 · most notably 699 So. 2d 822 - Viveros v. State (1997), 858 So. 2d 1103 - Fair v. Crosby (2003)
27 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 Cage v. Louisiana · 486 So. 2d 578 - Kelley v. State · 469 So. 2d 194 - Carter v. State · 576 So. 2d 415 - Freeman 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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“And even though it's a very heavy burden however, the State does not, and I repeat, stress and emphasize, the State does not have to convince you to an absolute certainty of the Defendant's guilt. You do not have to be one hundred percent satisfied the Defendant's guilty in order to find him guilty.... So the State does not have to convince you to 100 percent certainty of the Defendant's guilt but merely beyond and to the exclusion of every reasonable doubt.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Bove v. State · Smith v. State“[t]his kind of minimization of the reasonable doubt standard violates the due process clause of the federal and state constitutions. See Cage v. Louisiana, 498 U.S. 39 , 111 S.Ct. 328 , 112 L.Ed.2d 339 (12§Q)[disapproved of on other grounds, Estelle v. McGuire, 502 U.S. 62 , 112 S.Ct. 475 , 116 L.Ed.2d 385 (1991) ], wherein the Supreme Court deemed unacceptable a trial court’s instruction that reasonable doubt “must be such doubt as would give rise to a grave uncertainty, raised in your mind by reasons of the unsatisfactory character of the evidence or lack thereof.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Smith v. State“At bar, we find that this minimization of the reasonable doubt standard constituted fundamental error as it deprived the appellant of his defense, the reliance on the reasonable doubt standard.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Reyes v. State
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.