Clayton v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• “The reversal of a conviction because of the refusal of the trial judge to grant a continuance requires ‘a positive demonstration of abuse of judicial discretion.’ ”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Arthur v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1996-03-08· cited 110×
• Beauregard v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1979-04-17· cited 92×
• Jackson v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 2000-03-31· cited 91×
• Loggins v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1999-04-30· cited 63×
• Gamble v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 2000-06-30· cited 55×
• Smith v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 2000-08-25· cited 52×
• Albarran v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 2011-07-29· cited 50×
• Thompson v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1988-04-12· cited 47×
• McGowan v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 2005-07-08· cited 44×
• Gobble v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 2010-02-05· cited 42×
• Flowers v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 2000-10-27· cited 37×
• Weaver v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1981-06-30· cited 32×
• Roberson v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 2002-06-28· cited 32×
• Woodward v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 2011-12-16· cited 32×
• Watters v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1978-05-30· cited 27×
• McMillan v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 2010-11-05· cited 24×
• Connor v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1984-01-10· cited 23×
• Mitchell v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 2010-08-27· cited 23×
• Brackin v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1982-06-29· cited 22×
• McGriff v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 2001-08-31· cited 22×

Cites

5 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Powell v. Texas
  Supreme Court· 1968-10-14· cited 697×
• United States v. Donald Kenneth Currens
  Third Circuit· 1961-05-01· cited 193×
• Thomas v. State
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1951-06-14· cited 29×
• Bergin v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1967-03-14· cited 14×
• Smith v. State
  Alabama Court of Appeals· 1955-03-16· cited 2×