451 So. 2d 440 - McDonald v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently April 2010
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 Colston v. State · Ex Parte Robinson · 389 So. 2d 144 - Robinson v. State · Seibert v. State · Shelter Modular Corp. v. Cardinal Enterprises
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.
“"The trial court is the factfinder in a hearing on a motion for new trial. One condition of the trial court's granting a new trial on the basis of newly discovered evidence is that the court must believe the evidence presented at the hearing. Seibert v. State, 343 So.2d 788 (Ala. 1977). Considering the guidelines for judging newly discovered evidence as set forth in Zuck v. State [ 57 Ala.App. 15 ], 325 So.2d 531 (Ala.1975) and Seibert, supra, we find that the trial court did not err in its conclusion...."”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“rests in the sound discretion of the trial court and depends largely on the credibility of the new evidence.”
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.