Jones v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
213 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 216 later decisions — most recently March 2022 · most notably 205 Ill. 2d 411 - People v. Tenney (2002), 760 So. 2d 903 - Way v. State (2000)
213 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 · United States v. Bagley · Kyles v. Whitley · Chambers v. Mississippi · California v. Green
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 216 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“evaluate the weight of both the newly discovered evidence and the evidence which was introduced at the trial.”
64 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“weakens the case against [the defendant] so as to give rise to a reasonable doubt as to his culpability.”
17 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“probably produce an acquittal on retrial.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Sireci v. State · Preston 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.