Jones v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
51 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions — most recently August 2018 · most notably Perez v. State (2003), Lofton v. State (2001)
51 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 Rousseau v. State · Bignall v. State · Bell v. State · Skinner v. State · Schweinle v. State
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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Here, appellant’s testimony that he did not steal or intend to steal negated the theft element of the robbery charge. If the jury believed appellant’s testi mony that he did not steal and believed the State's evidence that he struck Michelle Yan-cey, they could rationally conclude that appellant committed assault and not theft.”). With respect to the instruction on the lesser included offense of theft, the court held that the defendant's assertion that he committed the assault in self-defense was sufficient to require that an instruction for theft be given. Id. at 258 (”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Williams v. State“some evidence that the offender was not in possession of the stolen property at the time of his assaultive conduct.” According to the court's decision, the loss prevention employees “recovered deodorant, Ben Gay and Blistex from appellant’s pockets” and”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Williams v. State
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.