Jones v. United States

1960-03-28 · Supreme Court of the United States · United States

1What it rests on

6Relied on since

0Departed from

Relied on since

The judgments that cite this one. This is the answer that tells you the case is still alive.

19611 judgments6 years silent19671 judgments19681 judgments5 years silent19731 judgments5 years silent19781 judgments48 years silent20261 judgments

6 judgments have relied on it, across 1961–2026

first 1961 · last 2026 · busiest 1961 (1 judgments)

2026-06-26Mario Villarreal v. the State of TexasTexas Court of Appeals, 3rd District (Austin)1978-06-21Jessie Ray JONES, Appellant, v. the STATE of Texas, AppelleeCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas 1973-05-29Schneckloth, Conservation Center Superintendent v. BustamonteSupreme Court of the United States 1968-03-18SIMMONS Et Al v. UNITED STATESSupreme Court of the United States 1967-12-18Katz v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States×2 1961-10-09Mapp v. OhioSupreme Court of the United States×2

What it rests on

1949-10-10Brinegar v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States

26 point outside the corpus. Read from the text, but no judgment held here answers to them. They are counted rather than hidden: this corpus is a slice, not the law.

Departed from

No judgment recorded a departure from this one.

Departure is not detected yet, and the gap is deliberate. Searching for the words the Court might use was measured on 1,019 judgments: "depart from" appears 100 times and most often means departing from the facts found by a domestic court; "overruled" appears 44 times, usually about a domestic judgment; "abandon" appears 123 times, most often as abandoned firearms. Tightened to require the Court itself as the subject, precision was still around 40%, the rest being a dissenting judge complaining, or a national supreme court departing from its own case-law. Telling a lawyer an authority is dead when it is alive is worse than saying nothing, so nothing is what this says until each candidate can be judged properly.

not characterised

Most citations carry no word at all. The Court does not always say what it is doing when it cites one of its own judgments, and where it stayed silent nothing is inferred here.