430 So. 2d 883 - Robinson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 41 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently March 2007 · most notably 516 So. 2d 726 - Jackson v. State (1985), Hall v. State (1999)
1 federal appellate · 41 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 54 Ala. App. 491 - Bowens v. State · 52 Ala. App. 64 - Flurry v. State · 54 Ala. App. 482 - Botsford v. State · Gilliland v. State · 47 Ala. App. 363 - Dannelly 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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'[T]he passage of time cannot be ignored as a factor in bringing objectivity to trial.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“"The determination of whether or not to grant a change of venue is a matter generally left to the sound discretion of the trial court. Mathis v. State , 52 Ala. App. 668 , 296 So.2d 755 (1973), cert. denied, 292 Ala. 732 , 296 So.2d 764 (1974); Flurry v. State , 52 Ala. App. 64 , 289 So.2d 632 (1973), cert. denied, 292 Ala. 720 , *Page 224 289 So.2d 644 (1974); Acoff v. State , 50 Ala. App. 206 , 278 So.2d 210 (1973); Turner v. State , 410 So.2d 458 (Ala.Cr.App. 1981). This is generally the law because the trial court is in the best position to weigh the evidence and 'evaluate the prejudicial atmosphere' surrounding the accused's case. Botsford v. State , 54 Ala. App. 482 , 309 So.2d 835 , cert. denied, 293 Ala. 745 , 309 So.2d 844 (1975); Burnett v. State , 350 So.2d 718 (Ala.Cr.App. 1977)."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Consequently, we have reviewed the change of venue evidence in search of any clear or gross abuse of discretion on the part of the trial court and have found none. Botsford v. State , supra; McLaren v. State , 353 So.2d 24 (Ala.Cr.App.), cert. denied, 353 So.2d 35 (Ala. 1977). From our review, we have concluded that, although the appellant zealously and earnestly tried to establish, through witnesses, news media accounts, and arguments, that the”
2 later decisions 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.