500 So. 2d 83 - Griffin v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently May 2002 · most notably Barnes v. Dale (1988), 555 So. 2d 818 - Johnson v. State (1989)
31 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 Townsend v. Sain · Jackson v. Denno · Lego v. Twomey · North Carolina v. Butler · Daniel v. Security Pacific National Bank
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"The granting or denial of a new trial on the ground of newly discovered evidence is a decision resting largely within the sound discretion of the trial court and the decision will not be reversed on appeal unless it is clearly shown that the trial judge abused his discretion. Snider v. State , 473 So.2d 579 , 580 (Ala.Cr.App. 1985); Perry v. State , 455 So.2d 999 , 1003 (Ala.Cr.App. 1984). Robinson v. State , 389 So.2d 144 (Ala.Cr.App.), cert. denied , 389 So.2d 151 (Ala. 1980). In order to establish the right to a new trial on the grounds of newly discovered evidence, appellant must show that the evidence has been discovered since the trial, that it could not have been discovered before the trial by the exercise of due diligence, that it is material to the issue, that it is not merely cumulative or impeaching, and that the evidence is such that it will probably change the result if a new trial is granted. Baker v. State , 477 So.2d 496 , 504 (Ala.Cr.App. 1985), cert. denied , 475 U.S. 1029 , 106 S.Ct. 1231 , 89 L.Ed.2d 340 (1986); Willis v. State , 447 So.2d 199 , 202 (Ala.Cr.App. 1983); Bland v. State , 390 So.2d 1098 (Ala.Cr.App.), cert. denied , 390 So.2d 1109 (Ala. 1980), cert. denied , 451 U.S. 991 , 101 S.Ct. 2332 , 68 L.Ed.2d 851 (1981)."”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“'The issue of the admissibility and hence the voluntariness of the statements and the confession in this case turns, as it does in so many others, on the question of which witnesses the trial judge believed.' Moore v. State, supra , at 1214-15. See also Ex parte Singleton , 465 So.2d 443 , 445 (Ala. 1985); Todd v. State , 472 So.2d 707 , 714 (Ala.Cr.App. 1985).”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“'A finding of the trial court as to the voluntariness of a confession, following a hearing outside the presence of the jury, will not be disturbed on appeal unless contrary to the great weight of the evidence and manifestly wrong.'”
3 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.