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.

• death appropriate penalty for defendant convicted of murder committed during the course of a burglary
• “Contrary to Jones’s contention, the law does not require that the crime—in this case, theft—be completed. Rather, the accused must merely unlawfully enter a dwelling with the intent to commit a crime.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

12 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Brown v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 2007-06-29· cited 58×
• Wilson v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 2010-11-05· cited 48×
• Shaw v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 2014-07-18· cited 18×
• Smith v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 2017-03-17· cited 13×
• Townes v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 2015-12-18· cited 13×
• Floyd v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 2007-09-28· cited 11×
• Hyde v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 2007-09-28· cited 10×
• Marshall v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 2007-08-31· cited 4×
• Kirksey v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 2014-12-19· cited 4×
• State v. R.C.
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 2015-04-17· cited 4×
• Creque v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 2018-02-09· cited 2×
• K.A. v. State of Alabama (Appeal from Russell Juvenile Court: JU-23-748.03)
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 2025-03-28

Cites

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

• Miranda v. Arizona
  Supreme Court· 1966-06-13· cited 58,288×
• Chapman v. California
  Supreme Court· 1967-03-27· cited 23,069×
• United States v. Young
  Supreme Court· 1985-02-20· cited 4,689×
• Roper v. Simmons
  Supreme Court· 2005-03-01· cited 3,523×
• Bram v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1897-12-13· cited 1,397×
• Faircloth v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1984-07-17· cited 362×
• Ex Parte Faircloth
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1985-05-10· cited 319×
• Bankston v. State
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1978-04-07· cited 241×
• Ex Parte Kyzer
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1981-03-06· cited 217×
• Ex Parte Grayson
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1985-05-10· cited 207×
• Coral v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1992-03-27· cited 196×
• Thomas v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1978-10-31· cited 185×
• Dill v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1991-05-31· cited 180×
• Ward v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1990-01-19· cited 176×
• Price v. State.
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1998-09-04· cited 170×
• Farrior v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1998-09-11· cited 166×
• Willis v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1983-11-01· cited 162×
• O'NEAL v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1992-03-13· cited 156×
• Hall v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1999-10-01· cited 155×
• Ex Parte Johnson
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1993-01-15· cited 154×