Jones v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
81 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 81 later decisions — most recently February 2026 · most notably State v. Perry (1967), State v. Calhoun (1999)
81 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 Carnley v. Cochran
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 81 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * to apprise petitioner of the grounds for the judgment of the trial court and to enable the appellate courts to properly determine appeals in such a cause.”
14 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“it shall make and file findings of fact and conclusions of law with respect to such dismissal.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“A trial court properly denies a petition for postconviction relief, made pursuant to R.C. 2953.21 , and issues proper findings of fact and conclusions of law where such findings are comprehensive and pertinent to the issues presented, where the findings demonstrate the basis for the decision by the trial court, and where the findings are supported by the evidence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.