110 So. 2d 669 - Cloud v. Fallis’s Empirical Analysis
1959
Citation profile
440 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 443 later decisions — most recently June 2019 · most notably 359 So. 2d 430 - Wackenhut Corp. v. Canty (1978), 749 So. 2d 490 - Brown v. Estate of Stuckey (1999)
440 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 Seaver Ex Rel. Seaver v. Stratton · Hart, Et Vir v. Held · Martin v. Stone · 98 So. 2d 341 - Pyms v. Meranda · Schultz v. Pacific Insurance
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 443 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When a motion for new trial is made it is directed to the sound, broad discretion of the trial judge, who because of his contact with the trial and his observation of the behavior of those upon whose testimony the finding of fact must be based is better positioned than any other one person fully to comprehend the processes by which the ultimate decision of the triers of fact, the jurors, is reached.”
63 later decisions quote this exact passage“when the verdict is contrary to the `manifest weight and probative force of the evidence and (the) justice of the cause'”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage“contrary to the manifest weight of the evidence”
7 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.