Jones v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently December 2013
9 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 Bufalino v. United States · Luttrell v. Commonwealth · Scruggs v. Commonwealth · Tayloe v. Commonwealth · Tipton v. Commonwealth
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Although jurors sworn to try a case clearly must not communicate with anyone else regarding any subjects connected with the trial, RCr 9.70, members of a jury panel from which the petit jury is chosen, certainly do not live in a vacuum and they cannot be expected always to be devoid of any knowledge of any case upon which they might be selected to sit. Despite the fact that they may have acquaintance with or knowledge about participants or possible testimony in a pending case, prospective jurors can still qualify to sit on the case so long as reasonable grounds exist to believe that they can render a fair and impartial verdict based solely on the evidence adduced.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“prolonged loss or impairment of the function of a bodily organ.” The Commonwealth has not offered any justification for a finding of prolonged impairment of the function of Henderson’s hand. Furthermore, the Commonwealth has not asserted that Henderson's injury constituted a”
1 later decision 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.