Hinton v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

3 state decisions

Most-quoted passages

The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““ ‘If Payne was in fact a qualified firearms and toolmarks expert, even if his qualifications did not necessarily match up with those possessed by the State’s experts, then I would affirm the circuit court’s judgment denying Rule 32 relief. Sorting out conflicting testimony from qualified experts presented at trial is solely within the province of the jury. Rule 32 is not a mechanism by which those convicted of criminal offenses may argue many years after trial that they now have found better expert witnesses that a newly selected jury should hear....’””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Hinton v. State

2. ““Because, in my view, [the] ineffective-assistance claim turns on whether [Andrew] Payne was a qualified firearms and toolmarks expert, that issue should first be addressed by the circuit court. Until that is done, I do not believe that this case is in the right posture for us to decide one way or the other whether the circuit court exceeded its discretion in denying Rule 32[, Ala. R.Crim. P.,] relief.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Hinton v. State

3. “" '[Pjrosecutors successfully challenge the credibility of even qualified expert defense witnesses in many cases and for many reasons. Therefore, ... it is not dispositive that the prosecutor successfully challenged Payne’s credibility before the jury.’ ’’”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Hinton v. State