State v. Jones’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently March 2012
22 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 Chapman v. State of California · Griffin v. California · State v. Rowell · State v. Miller · State v. Lopez
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In his closing argument to the jury the district attorney stated: ‘ * * * there is no testimony at all, from either one of these sterling Defendants or anybody else * * * ’ Immediately defense counsel objected, pointing out that the district attorney’s phrase was a ‘comment concerning the refusal of Defendant’s [sic] to take the stand.’ Defense counsel moved for a mistrial on the ground that such a comment to the jury was in contravention of the defendants’ Fifth Amendment right to remain silent. “The trial court ruled: ‘As to the objection regarding the argument, it is probably unnecessary and improper to refer to the Defendants, so that the Jury will disregard Mr. Hanagan’s statement that there wasn’t any testimony by these Defendants. * * * ’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Aguirre
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.