State v. Jones’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
234 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 234 later decisions — most recently February 2026 · most notably State v. Mathis (2006), State v. Jones (2018)
234 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 State v. Edmonson · 143 Ohio St. 312 - Sears v. Weimer · State v. Williams · Meeks v. Papadopulos
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 234 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“clearly in the better position to judge the defendant's dangerousness and to ascertain the effect of the crimes on the victims.”
26 later decisions quote this exact passage“necessary to protect the public from future crime or to punish the offender and that consecutive sentences are not disproportionate to the seriousness of the offender's conduct and to the danger the offender poses to the public[.]”
13 later decisions quote this exact passage“finds on the record that the shortest prison term will demean the seriousness of the offender's conduct or will not adequately protect the public from future crime by the offender or others.”
11 later decisions 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.