Brooks v. Floyd’s Empirical Analysis

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1 state decisions

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1. ““Under the well-settled rule, if there was any evidence tending to support the defense interposed by defendant, the trial judge could not properly have directed a verdict. Under the equally well-settled rule, on such motion defendant was entitled to have the evidence considered and construed most strongly in his favor.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Jackson v. Jackson