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.

• providing that 40 the merger doctrine under OCGA § 16-1-7 (a) “does not apply if each of the charged crimes was committed against a different victim” (citation and punctuation omitted)
• rejecting a challenge based on the separation of powers doctrine because “the legislature acted within constitutional bounds in establishing maximum and minimum punishment and eliminating judicial discretion in sentencing certain serious violent offenders”
• “It is evident from the wording of OCGA § 16-1-6 (1) that the legislature did not intend one crime to be included within another 12 if each crime affected a different person.”
• no presumption of prosecutorial vindictiveness after plea negotiations failed

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Pierce v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-10-30· cited 34×
• Williams v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-09-10· cited 24×
• Brinkley v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-06-18· cited 22×
• Jones v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-04-17· cited 19×
• SILLAH v. THE STATE (Two Cases)
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2023-02-07· cited 17×
• TAYLOR, EXR. v. THE DEVEREUX FOUNDATION, INC. (And Vice Versa)
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2023-03-15· cited 16×
• Pepe-Frazier v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2015-03-18· cited 14×
• Cordero v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-03-16· cited 13×
• Conley v. Pate
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-03-04· cited 12×
• Amos v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-03-07· cited 9×
• Hughes v. the State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2017-06-06· cited 9×
• Brinkley v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2013-03-11· cited 8×
• Ashley v. the State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2017-03-08· cited 6×
• Upton v. Hardeman
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-10-15· cited 6×
• PATTERSON v. the STATE.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2019-06-18· cited 4×
• Regan v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2023-11-02· cited 4×
• Piper v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2013-03-05· cited 3×
• Harold Miller v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2019-09-23
• Sherron Burrell v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2020-07-13
• Damion Roger Buchanan v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2020-12-14

Cites

37 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×
• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• United States v. Goodwin
  Supreme Court· 1982-06-18· cited 1,581×
• Drinkard v. Walker
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2006-10-16· cited 350×
• Garza v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2008-11-03· cited 192×
• Butler v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2001-02-05· cited 102×
• Henderson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2009-03-09· cited 89×
• Brown v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2011-03-25· cited 81×
• Gore v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1926-05-13· cited 76×
• Hammond v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2011-04-26· cited 72×
• Parker v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1996-02-21· cited 67×
• Campbell v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1997-05-12· cited 50×
• Adams v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2011-02-07· cited 50×
• Humphrey v. Wilson
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2007-10-26· cited 48×
• Rutland v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2009-03-05· cited 27×
• Woods v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2005-02-07· cited 23×
• Shields v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2003-06-02· cited 23×
• Benton v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1995-07-28· cited 21×
• Souder v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2009-11-02· cited 20×
• Horne v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2009-06-29· cited 19×