State v. Jones’s Empirical Analysis
2005
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently January 2025
12 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 Magnolia Venture Capital Corp. v. Mississippi Department of Economic & Community Development · Lowe v. Cantrell · State v. Perkins · State v. Munoz · State v. Shabazz
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Under § 53a-57, the state was required to prove that the defendant was operating a motor vehicle, that [s]he caused the death of another person, and that [s]he failed to perceive a substantial and unjustifiable risk that the manner in which [ s ] he operated [ her ] vehicle would cause that death. The failure to perceive that risk must constitute a gross deviation from the standard of care that a reasonable person would observe in the situation.... Further, [t]o prove causation, the state is required to demonstrate that the defendant's conduct was a proximate cause of the victim's death-i.e., that the defendant's conduct contributed substantially and materially, in a direct manner, to the victim's injuries and that the defendant's conduct was not superseded by an efficient intervening cause that produced the injuries.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The [penal] code ... distinguishes reckless from criminally negligent conduct. A person acts recklessly if he is aware of and consciously disregards a substantial and unjustifiable risk, and acts with criminal negligence ... when he fails to perceive a substantial and unjustifiable risk.”
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.