State v. Griffin

How courts have described this case

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

• distinguishing between a verdict of acquittal and granting a motion for a new trial after conviction
• acknowledging the state’s strong interest in upholding lawful jury verdicts and limiting state’s appeals from grants of motions for new trials to pure questions of law
• trial court’s grant or denial of motion for new trial will not be reversed on appeal absent a “clear and unmistakable abuse of discretion”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

17 cases in this archive cite this case.

• State v. Sanchez
  New Mexico Supreme Court· 1995-07-26· cited 65×
• State v. House
  New Mexico Supreme Court· 1999-02-24· cited 59×
• Gallegos v. State Board of Education
  New Mexico Court of Appeals· 1997-03-26· cited 43×
• State v. Apodaca
  New Mexico Court of Appeals· 1997-04-30· cited 41×
• State v. Griffin
  New Mexico Supreme Court· 1994-06-02· cited 30×
• State v. Griego
  New Mexico Court of Appeals· 2004-06-30· cited 26×
• State v. Lucero
  New Mexico Supreme Court· 2001-08-01· cited 23×
• State v. Armijo
  New Mexico Supreme Court· 2016-06-13· cited 21×
• State v. Arevalo
  New Mexico Court of Appeals· 2002-04-02· cited 14×
• State v. Horton
  New Mexico Court of Appeals· 2008-02-15· cited 14×
• State v. Worley
  New Mexico Supreme Court· 2020-08-27· cited 12×
• State v. Willyard
  New Mexico Court of Appeals· 2019-06-17· cited 10×
• State v. Danek
  New Mexico Supreme Court· 1994-06-23· cited 9×
• State v. Carroll
  New Mexico Court of Appeals· 2015-01-26· cited 7×
• State v. Yancey
  New Mexico Supreme Court· 2019-10-07· cited 6×
• State v. Acosta
  New Mexico Court of Appeals· 2015-09-02· cited 5×
• State v. Carroll
  New Mexico Court of Appeals· 2013-10-21

Cites

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

• Tibbs v. Florida
  Supreme Court· 1982-06-07· cited 3,796×
• Hudson v. Louisiana
  Supreme Court· 1981-02-24· cited 769×
• Swafford v. State
  New Mexico Supreme Court· 1991-05-01· cited 537×
• In Re Petition for Writ of Prohibition
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1988-04-08· cited 74×
• State v. Taylor
  Washington Supreme Court· 1962-05-17· cited 61×
• State v. Volpato
  New Mexico Supreme Court· 1985-02-18· cited 47×
• Olguin v. State
  New Mexico Supreme Court· 1977-04-25· cited 47×
• Rettinger v. Bresnahan
  Washington Supreme Court· 1953-05-21· cited 40×
• State v. Gonzales
  New Mexico Court of Appeals· 1987-01-09· cited 36×
• State v. Watson
  New Mexico Court of Appeals· 1971-07-02· cited 33×
• State v. Chavez
  New Mexico Supreme Court· 1982-09-27· cited 32×
• State v. Santillanes
  New Mexico Court of Appeals· 1980-12-16· cited 28×
• State v. Santillanes
  New Mexico Supreme Court· 1981-06-29· cited 27×
• State v. Castillo
  New Mexico Court of Appeals· 1980-04-24· cited 24×
• People v. Gennings
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 1978-08-21· cited 24×
• State v. Chacon
  New Mexico Supreme Court· 1914-11-28· cited 19×
• State v. Chavez
  New Mexico Supreme Court· 1984-01-13· cited 16×
• State v. Romero
  New Mexico Supreme Court· 1938-04-23· cited 13×
• State v. Miller
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1941-11-08· cited 12×
• Gutierrez v. Brady
  New Mexico Supreme Court· 1941-05-17· cited 10×