Broadnax v. State

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that because Mr. Broadnax failed to prove he was at the work release center at 9:00 p.m., he failed to show it was “impossible for him to have committed a murder in Birmingham”
• “[N]othing prevented Broadnax from calling his family members to testify or from testifying himself regarding the same information that had allegedly been provided to Dr. Benedict.” (footnote omitted)
• declining to consider Dr. Benedict’s inadmissible hearsay evidence proffered at the Rule 32 hearing

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

21 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Reeves v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 2016-06-10· cited 44×
• Derrick Anthony DeBruce v. Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections
  Eleventh Circuit· 2014-07-15· cited 38×
• Mashburn v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 2013-07-12· cited 36×
• Stallworth v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 2013-11-08· cited 29×
• Clark v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 2015-03-13· cited 20×
• Marshall v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 2014-05-02· cited 19×
• Benjamin v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 2013-12-20· cited 16×
• Carruth v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 2014-03-14· cited 12×
• Walker v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 2015-02-06· cited 11×
• Van Pelt v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 2015-08-14· cited 11×
• Syed v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2018-03-29· cited 9×
• State v. Kerley
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 2017-12-15· cited 4×
• Brownfield v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 2017-12-15· cited 4×
• Donald Broadnax v. Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections
  Eleventh Circuit· 2021-05-07· cited 2×
• Mays v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 2016-10-21
• Wayne Holleman Travis v. State of Alabama
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 2023-03-24
• State v. Syed
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2019-03-08
• Jesse Earl Scheuing v. State of Alabama (Appeal from Calhoun Circuit Court: CC-09-426.60)
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 2024-09-27
• Michael David Belcher v. State of Alabama
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 2025-08-22
• Michael David Belcher v. State of Alabama
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 2026-06-26

Cites

81 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Strickland v. Washington
  Supreme Court· 1984-06-25· cited 123,578×
• Miranda v. Arizona
  Supreme Court· 1966-06-13· cited 58,288×
• Wiggins v. Smith, Warden
  Supreme Court· 2003-06-26· cited 5,961×
• Chambers v. Mississippi
  Supreme Court· 1973-02-21· cited 5,756×
• Kimmelman v. Morrison
  Supreme Court· 1986-06-26· cited 3,502×
• Crane v. Kentucky
  Supreme Court· 1986-06-09· cited 2,651×
• Gardner v. Florida
  Supreme Court· 1977-03-22· cited 1,935×
• Rylander v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2003-03-26· cited 1,786×
• Skipper v. South Carolina
  Supreme Court· 1986-04-29· cited 1,534×
• David Ronald Chandler v. United States
  Eleventh Circuit· 2000-07-21· cited 1,022×
• Mann v. Oklahoma
  Supreme Court· 1994-05-16· cited 371×
• Sears v. Upton
  Supreme Court· 2010-06-29· cited 293×
• Omar Blanco, Cross-Appellant v. Harry K. Singletary, as Secretary, Department of Corrections, State of Florida, Cross-Appellee
  Eleventh Circuit· 1991-09-30· cited 193×
• Baldwin v. Alabama
  Supreme Court· 1985-06-17· cited 158×
• Ex Parte Baldwin
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1984-07-13· cited 148×
• Brownlee v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1995-01-13· cited 141×
• Ex Parte Lawley
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1987-08-07· cited 136×
• Hallford v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1993-12-10· cited 136×
• Boyd v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 2003-09-26· cited 134×
• Mayes v. Gibson
  Tenth Circuit· 2000-05-04· cited 128×