Jackson v. State

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding, without commenting on the charge, that the trial court did not err in failing to charge the jury that “it is better that many guilty people go unpunished than that one innocent person is convicted” because it was an abstract principle of law

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

2 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Morris v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 2010-02-05· cited 33×
• Ready v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1990-09-21· cited 10×

Cites

15 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Aguilar v. Texas
  Supreme Court· 1964-06-15· cited 7,289×
• Jones v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1960-03-28· cited 4,796×
• Johnson v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1948-02-02· cited 3,856×
• Giordenello v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1958-06-30· cited 1,231×
• Rugendorf v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1964-05-18· cited 725×
• Dolvin v. State
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1980-09-12· cited 173×
• Walker v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1977-12-06· cited 24×
• Crittenden v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1982-05-18· cited 20×
• Payne v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1982-12-28· cited 20×
• Taylor v. State
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1964-02-06· cited 18×
• Ex Parte Walker
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1978-03-31· cited 14×
• Williams v. State
  Alabama Court of Appeals· 1951-02-20· cited 9×
• Craig v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1980-10-07· cited 6×
• Williams v. State
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1951-10-25· cited 4×
• Dolvin v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1980-10-28· cited 3×