Jones v. Kentucky’s Empirical Analysis
97 F.2d 335 · 1938
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 2 district · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2009 · most notably Napue v. People of the State of Illinois (1959), 60 Cal. 2d 554 - In Re Imbler (1963)
17 federal appellate · 2 district · 9 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 453
Relies on Powell v. State of Alabama Patterson · Mooney v. Holohan · Brown v. State of Mississippi · Frank v. Mangum · Moore v. Dempsey
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he fundamental conceptions of justice which lie at the base of our civil and political institutions”
4 later decisions 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.