Jones v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently November 2012
11 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 Blockburger v. United States · Jackson v. Commonwealth · Jordan v. Commonwealth · Phillips v. Commonwealth · Adams 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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“From Milward, Kentucky Criminal Practice, § 5.07 (1984): Section 13 of the Kentucky Constitution, which prohibits an accused from being placed in double jeopardy for the same offense, prohibits the Commonwealth from carving out of one act or transaction two or more offenses. [Jones, 756 S.W.2d] at 463. Our interpretation of § 13: The Commonwealth is permitted to carve out of a single criminal episode the most serious offense, but not to punish a single episode as multiple offenses. [Jones] at 463.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““The Commonwealth is permitted to carve out of a single criminal episode the most serious offense, but not to punish a single episode as multiple offenses.” Jones v. Commonwealth, supra, 756 S.W.2d at 468 .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The distinction stated by Mr. Wharton is that “when the impulse is single, but one indictment lies, no matter how long the action may continue. If successive impulses are separately given, even though all united in swelling a common stream of action, separate indictments lie.’ Wharton’s Criminal Law, 11th ed., § 34-”
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.