2 Tenn. Crim. App. 160 - Jones v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently July 2018
17 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Jamison v. State · Smith v. State · Hargrove v. State · 1 Tenn. Crim. App. 1 - Webster v. State · Gulley v. State
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"... . An accused seeking a new trial on the ground of newly discovered evidence must file an affidavit setting forth the facts showing that he and his counsel exercised reasonable diligence and were not negligent in the search for evidence in preparation for the trial of the case, that he and his counsel had no pre-trial knowledge of the allegedly newly discovered evidence, and it must be supported by the affidavit of the new witness showing materiality of the testimony and that it had not been communicated to the accused prior to trial."”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“"This Court held in Gentry v. State, 184 Tenn. 299 , 198 S.W.2d 643, 648 , that a new trial was properly refused where the newly discovered evidence purported to show that a material witness of the State had committed perjury in his testimony at the trial, quoting from 39 Am.Jur., New Trial, Section 167, p. 173: `"It is well settled that a new trial will not be granted upon the ground of newly discovered evidence where it appears that such new evidence can have no other effect than to discredit the testimony of a witness at the original trial, contradict a witness's statements, or impeach a witness, unless the testimony of the witness who is sought to be impeached was so important to the issue, and the evidence impeaching the witness so strong and convincing, that a different result must necessarily follow. * * *"' The State cites to the same effect, 16 C.J., p. 1205, Section 2730, in part as follows: `The trial court has the right to determine the credibility of newly discovered evidence for which a new trial is asked and if the Court is satisfied that, on a new trial such testimony would not be worthy of belief by the jury, the motion should be denied. The newly discovered evidence will not be accepted as ground for a new trial unless the Court can see that its admission on a new trial will probably produce a result more favorable to defendant than the verdict on the original trial. The question is not what they jury might do, but, supposing all the evidence new and old to ”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Evans v. State
How this case has been treated — in progress
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