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.

• upholding instruction, after instructions setting forth the elements of felony murder, that “in your consideration of the indictment, that is, the charge of felony murder, you may also consider the lesser included offense of involuntary manslaughter in the commission of an unlawful act”
• “Failure to object to a court’s charge ... is not ineffective assistance where the appellant does not show how this prejudiced his case.”
• “Mistake of fact is a defense to a crime to the extent that the ignorance of some fact negates the existence of the mental state required to establish a material element of the crime”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Farley v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1995-06-30· cited 109×
• Morrow v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2000-06-12· cited 90×
• Allen v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-03-19· cited 46×
• Banta v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2007-09-24· cited 36×
• Gomillion v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1999-01-08· cited 35×
• Price v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2011-07-05· cited 33×
• Crawford v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1997-01-21· cited 32×
• Kennedy v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2004-02-16· cited 29×
• Capers v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1996-02-16· cited 24×
• Godfrey v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2005-07-08· cited 23×
• Wright v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2003-03-10· cited 22×
• Peeples v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1998-09-18· cited 19×
• Webb v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1997-09-17· cited 17×
• New v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2004-11-04· cited 16×
• Stewart v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2021-05-17· cited 15×
• Lindo v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2006-03-15· cited 13×
• Jackson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2003-01-13· cited 13×
• State v. Compton
  New Jersey Superior Court App Division· 1997-10-08· cited 13×
• Green v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1996-04-08· cited 12×
• Gore v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2006-02-15· cited 12×

Cites

9 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Strickland v. Washington
  Supreme Court· 1984-06-25· cited 123,578×
• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• Edge v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1992-02-04· cited 236×
• Earnest v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1992-10-30· cited 182×
• Austin v. Carter
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1982-01-05· cited 56×
• Morris v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1937-11-27· cited 19×
• Kight v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1987-02-25· cited 11×
• Johnson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1984-07-16· cited 9×
• Gaddis v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1985-10-11· cited 9×