State v. Jones’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
63 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 63 later decisions — most recently October 2024 · most notably David S. v. State, Department of Health & Social Services (2012), Grinols v. State (2000)
63 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 Strickland v. Washington · Chapman v. State of California · Murray v. Carrier · United States v. Cronic · Darden v. Wainwright
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 63 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[Gjiven an unrestricted budget and freed of any constraints as to probable materiality or accountability, a lawyer might ... cheerfully [log in] many hours looking for the legal equivalent of a needle in a haystack.... [A] millionaire might [retain] counsel to leave not a single stone unturned. However, a defendant is not entitled to perfection but to basic fairness. In the real world, expenditure of time and effort is dependent on a reasonable indication of materiality.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“ordinary training and skill in the criminal law”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Coffman v. State · LaBrake v. State“If the record ... is silent with regard to an issue and the witnesses are unable to remember, the state has not failed to substantiate its case; to the contrary, the prisoner has failed in his collateral attack on the judgment of conviction.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Parker v. State · Allen 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.