389 So. 2d 144 - Robinson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently August 2009 · most notably 594 So. 2d 1253 - McMillian v. State (1991), 545 So. 2d 151 - Brownlee v. State (1988)
38 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 Young v. State · Blue v. State · 49 Ala. App. 259 - Haggler v. State · Smith v. State · Stephens 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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“rests in the sound discretion of the trial court and depends largely on the credibility of the new evidence.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage“"The credibility of this evidence was for the trial judge to determine. The truthfulness or falsity of the evidence presented is not for this court to decide."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The standard of review for cases involving the grant or denial of a new trial based on newly discovered evidence is the same as that for a motion to withdraw a guilty plea. '”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.