Mourning v. Harrison’s Empirical Analysis
1941
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently January 1970
12 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 Pittman & Harrison Co. v. Hayes · State v. Smith · Smith v. Williams · Ferguson v. Stewart · Brown v. Wheeler
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The rales as to granting new trials on the ground of newly discovered evidence, as established by this court are: (1) The evidence must be in fact newly discovered, that is, discovered after the trial, and could not with reasonable diligence have been discovered and produced at the trial; (2) it must not be cumulative; (3) it must be of such character and strength as would with reasonable probability have compelled a different decision.” (Syl. f 2.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Wilcox v. Colwell
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.