Jones v. Cox’s Empirical Analysis
1964
Citation profile
5
cited by 5 later decisions
1
states following
March 1970
most recently cited
5 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on State v. Maestas · McCutcheon v. Cox · Binkley v. Hunter · Starkey v. Cox · Foundation Reserve Insurance v. Faust
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In all penal statutes of the state where by the terms of such statutes a definite punishment of imprisonment in the penitentiary is prescribed the time of such imprisonment in such statute shall be construed to be the maximum of imprisonment, unless such statutes expressly provide that such time is the minimum.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Starkey v. Cox
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.