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.

• authorizing the jury to infer from the evidence that appellant lacked authority to enter the victim’s home even in the absence of direct evidence on that issue
• authorizing the jury to infer from the evidence that appellant lacked authority to enter the victim’s home even in the absence of direct evidence on that issue
• rejecting claim that in-court identification was impermissibly tainted by pretrial showup identification, where the witness testified that he observed the defendant for three or four seconds in a well-lit area and gave an accurate, detailed description to officers.
• in-court identification was reliable where the witness based his identification of the defendant on his observations from the scene of the crime rather than on a police show-up identification
• “while there is no direct evidence on this issue, there is circumstantial evidence from which the jury could have found beyond a reasonable doubt that appellant lacked the authority to enter the victim’s home”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

31 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Jones v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2004-10-25· cited 429×
• Moon v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1988-11-30· cited 98×
• Pruitt v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1988-10-20· cited 61×
• Martin v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1989-11-17· cited 47×
• Bryant v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2007-10-09· cited 42×
• Smith v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1993-07-01· cited 26×
• Banks v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1995-01-24· cited 19×
• Smarr v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2012-09-07· cited 17×
• Smith v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2001-07-09· cited 16×
• Griffin v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2000-03-14· cited 16×
• Brooks v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1992-04-30· cited 15×
• Williamson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-05-06· cited 12×
• Wright v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2014-03-17· cited 11×
• Brown v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1989-07-10· cited 9×
• URSULITA v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2011-02-08· cited 6×
• Bigsby v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1993-10-28· cited 5×
• Merritt v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1993-12-02· cited 5×
• Spruell v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1999-03-18· cited 5×
• Isaacs v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1994-05-27· cited 5×
• Harris v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2013-06-04· cited 5×

Cites

5 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• Neil v. Biggers
  Supreme Court· 1972-12-06· cited 7,056×
• Coleman v. Alabama
  Supreme Court· 1970-06-22· cited 1,808×
• Felker v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1984-03-15· cited 196×
• Callaway v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1987-04-08· cited 41×