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.

• reversing a conviction after the defendant was found in possession of a stolen saddle five or six months after it was taken because the passage of time weakened the probability that the later possessor was also the original thief

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

10 cases in this archive cite this case.

• State v. Heaton
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1883-12-01· cited 27×
• Rushing v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1984-12-05· cited 23×
• Pearson v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1963-12-20· cited 20×
• Davis v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1874-04-15· cited 12×
• Snowden v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1884-10-15· cited 11×
• State v. Hodge
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 1869-06-15· cited 9×
• Smith v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1973-05-28· cited 6×
• People v. Ray
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 1899-07-01· cited 6×
• People v. Ray
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 1899-01-17· cited 3×
• State of Iowa v. Dillon Michael Heiller
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 2026-03-20

Cites

3 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Hall v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1858-01-10· cited 50×
• Dyson v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1872-07-01· cited 42×
• State v. Floyd
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 1852-01-15· cited 12×