Smith v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• no injustice done in denying petition for new trial when newly discovered evidence reasonably is found to be \utterly unworthy of credence... since it should be presumed that no jury will believe an incredible story\
• no injustice done in denying petition for new trial when newly discovered evidence reasonably is found to be “utterly unworthy of credence . . . since it should be presumed that no jury will believe an incredible story”
• upholding trial court's conclusion that new witness was not credible

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

16 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Turner v. Scanlon
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1959-01-27· cited 93×
• Taborsky v. State
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1955-07-29· cited 63×
• Shabazz v. State
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 2002-03-26· cited 40×
• Lombardo v. State
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1977-02-15· cited 39×
• Skakel v. State
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 2010-04-20· cited 37×
• Pass v. Pass
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1965-03-17· cited 31×
• Jones v. State
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 2018-02-02· cited 22×
• Johnson v. State
  Connecticut Appellate Court· 1994-09-13· cited 21×
• Adams v. State
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 2002-03-26· cited 17×
• United States Ex Rel. Smith v. Reincke
  D. Connecticut· 1965-03-22· cited 13×
• Channer v. State
  Connecticut Appellate Court· 1999-08-24· cited 13×
• State v. Davis
  Connecticut Appellate Court· 1963-05-14· cited 11×
• Johnson v. State
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1976-11-23· cited 5×
• State v. Goodwin
  Connecticut Appellate Court· 1965-08-18· cited 4×
• Smalls v. State
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1976-11-23· cited 2×
• Thomas v. State
  Connecticut Superior Court· 2009-05-19· cited 1×

Cites

8 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• State v. Smith
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1951-08-07· cited 64×
• Krooner v. State
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1950-07-03· cited 38×
• Hamlin v. State
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1880-05-04· cited 30×
• Smith v. State
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1952-11-10· cited 26×
• Cochrane v. State of Arizona
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1936-07-13· cited 21×
• State v. Anderson
  Montana Supreme Court· 1894-07-09· cited 10×
• People v. Merkle
  California Supreme Court· 1891-05-16· cited 5×
• Herndon v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1900-02-27· cited 4×