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.

• holding the absence of \fancier\ mitigation evidence does not render the prior mitigation case constitutionally inadequate where such evidence would not have any effect on the outcome of the trial

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

11 cases in this archive cite this case.

• State v. Gales
  Nebraska Court of Appeals· 2005-03-18· cited 200×
• Smalls v. State
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 2018-02-07· cited 93×
• Mollett v. Mullin
  Tenth Circuit· 2003-11-05· cited 31×
• Rosemond v. Catoe
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 2009-06-29· cited 25×
• State v. Stanko
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 2008-02-25· cited 22×
• Simpson v. Moore
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 2006-02-13· cited 18×
• Bowman v. State
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 2018-01-10· cited 15×
• Council v. State
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 2008-12-29· cited 11×
• Weik v. State
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 2014-07-23· cited 7×
• Mitchell Rivers v. State
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 2025-05-28
• Maron Alexander Lindsey v. State
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 2025-11-05

Cites

22 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Strickland v. Washington
  Supreme Court· 1984-06-25· cited 123,578×
• Skipper v. South Carolina
  Supreme Court· 1986-04-29· cited 1,534×
• Romano v. Oklahoma
  Supreme Court· 1994-06-13· cited 591×
• State v. Torrence
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1991-05-20· cited 352×
• Roger Dale Stafford v. James Saffle, Warden, Oklahoma State, Penitentiary at McAlester Oklahoma Susan B. Loving, Attorney General of Oklahoma
  Tenth Circuit· 1994-09-12· cited 153×
• State v. Shaw
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1979-05-28· cited 91×
• State v. Green
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1990-03-19· cited 89×
• State v. Plath
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1984-01-17· cited 85×
• State v. Bell
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1990-02-26· cited 81×
• Truesdale v. Moore
  Fourth Circuit· 1998-04-29· cited 63×
• Billy Wayne Waldrop v. Ronald E. Jones
  Eleventh Circuit· 1996-05-02· cited 60×
• State v. Caldwell
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1990-02-05· cited 55×
• State v. Gilbert
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1981-09-14· cited 54×
• State v. Bellamy
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1987-08-10· cited 46×
• State v. Pierce
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1986-07-21· cited 36×
• State v. Jones
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1989-03-06· cited 34×
• Arnold v. South Carolina; And Plath v. South Carolina
  Supreme Court· 1984-08-16· cited 31×
• Plath v. Moore
  Fourth Circuit· 1997-11-24· cited 21×
• State v. Jones
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1985-07-02· cited 14×
• Latshaw v. Federal Bureau of Investigation
  Supreme Court· 1995-05-01· cited 14×