Jones v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• explaining that the domestic-violence 10 victim’s writings in her “own words concerning her unhappy relationship with Appellant and his angry and controlling behavior” provided support for the trial court’s finding of trustworthiness
• explaining that the domestic-violence victim’s writings in her “own words concerning her unhappy relationship with Appellant and his angry and controlling behavior” provided support for the trial court’s finding of trustworthiness
• statements had sufficient guarantees of trustworthiness where “there was no evidence indicating that [the declarant] had a motive to fabricate her statements”
• trial court did not abuse its discretion by admitting evidence of murdered victim’s diary entries about defendant’s anger and her fear of him pursuant to residual exception to hearsay rule
• weighing probative value versus prejudice under Rule 404 (b

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

13 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Nundra v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2023-03-21· cited 31×
• HENDERSON v. THE STATE (Two Cases)
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2023-08-21· cited 24×
• Shellman v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2024-01-17· cited 12×
• Thomas v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-09-20· cited 10×
• Watkins v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2025-02-18· cited 7×
• Siders v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2024-10-15· cited 6×
• Kennebrew v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2023-09-19· cited 4×
• State v. Williams
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2023-05-02· cited 4×
• BEVERLY SPILLERS AS ADMINSTRATOR OF THE ESTATE OF HOLLEY HERRING v. ROBERT EARL BRINSON
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2021-11-08
• Vincent Ivory Hall v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2024-05-15
• David Little v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2024-09-23
• Lewis v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2025-12-09
• Burns v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2026-01-21

Cites

15 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• Vega v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2009-02-09· cited 340×
• Olds v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-05-23· cited 258×
• Kirby v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-09-24· cited 129×
• Anglin v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-10-16· cited 118×
• Hood v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-05-23· cited 115×
• Smart v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-07-05· cited 86×
• Strong v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-06-29· cited 51×
• Smith v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-02-06· cited 31×
• Rawls v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-10-19· cited 23×
• Jacobs v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-03-05· cited 20×
• Thompson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-06-01· cited 16×
• Harrison v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2021-03-01· cited 16×
• Reyes v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-08-10· cited 12×
• Valrie v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-04-20· cited 2×