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.

• vacating Brett Jones’s sentence of mandatory life imprisonment and remanding for resentencing
• vacating Brett Jones’s sentence of mandatory life imprisonment and remanding for resentencing
• Miller rendered sentencing scheme unconstitutional as applied to juvenile offenders and thus modified substantive Mississippi law
• Miller rendered sentencing scheme unconstitutional as applied to juvenile offenders and thus modified substantive Mississippi law
• “The Legislature is the branch of government responsible for enactment of substantive law, which includes both crime and punishment.”
• “We are of the opinion that Miller created a new, substantive rule which should be applied retroactively to cases on collateral review.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Jones v. Mississippi
  Supreme Court· 2021-04-22· cited 377×
• State v. Lyle
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 2014-07-18· cited 301×
• Commonwealth v. Cunningham
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2013-10-30· cited 283×
• State of Iowa v. Jeffrey K. Ragland
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 2013-08-16· cited 211×
• State v. Tate
  Supreme Court of Louisiana· 2013-11-05· cited 171×
• Aiken v. Byars
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 2014-11-12· cited 148×
• Rebecca Lee Falcon v. State of Florida
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2015-03-19· cited 97×
• Maxwell, Ex Parte Terrell
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2014-03-12· cited 76×
• State v. Mares
  Wyoming Supreme Court· 2014-10-09· cited 47×
• People v. Tate Banks v. People Jensen v. People
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 2015-06-01· cited 33×
• Frederick Bell v. State of Mississippi
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2015-01-08· cited 23×
• Willbanks v. Missouri Department of Corrections
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 2017-07-11· cited 23×
• Shermaine Johnson v. Henry Ponton
  Fourth Circuit· 2015-03-05· cited 22×
• LaMonte Martin v. Jessica Symmes
  Eighth Circuit· 2015-04-06· cited 19×
• Petition of State of New Hampshire
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 2014-08-29· cited 17×
• Williams v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 2014-04-04· cited 16×
• Kelley v. Gordon
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 2015-06-18· cited 14×
• Roman Nose v. State
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 2014-04-16· cited 13×
• Remill Mason v. State of Mississippi
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2017-05-30· cited 12×
• Lois Hudspeth v. State of Mississippi
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2015-11-10· cited 9×

Cites

17 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Miller v. Alabama
  Supreme Court· 2012-06-25· cited 6,816×
• Teague v. Lane
  Supreme Court· 1989-04-17· cited 6,602×
• Bousley v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1998-05-18· cited 5,336×
• Graham v. Florida
  Supreme Court· 2010-05-17· cited 3,477×
• Griffith v. Kentucky
  Supreme Court· 1987-01-13· cited 3,380×
• Schriro v. Summerlin
  Supreme Court· 2004-06-24· cited 2,419×
• Brown v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1999-01-14· cited 589×
• J. D. B. v. North Carolina
  Supreme Court· 2011-06-16· cited 563×
• Williams v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1998-03-26· cited 107×
• Parker v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2010-03-25· cited 93×
• Parker v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2013-06-06· cited 64×
• Wyatt L. Bear Cloud v. The State of Wyoming
  Wyoming Supreme Court· 2013-02-08· cited 63×
• Lambert v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2006-09-14· cited 53×
• Manning v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2006-03-09· cited 42×
• Mitchell v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1990-05-16· cited 24×
• Jones v. State
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2011-08-23· cited 7×
• Jones v. State
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2006-09-19· cited 6×