Clark v. Parker’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

1 federal appellate · 21 state decisions

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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““‘The very fact that he is given the power to set aside a verdict as contrary to the evidence necessarily means that he must, to some extent at least, pass upon the weight of the evidence. “It would, indeed, be a futile and idle thing for the law to give a court a supervisory authority over the proceedings and manner of conducting a cause before the jury, and the right to set aside the verdict of the jury therein because contrary to the evidence, unless the judge vested with such power could consider, to some extent at least, the evidence in the cause; * * *” Cardwell v. Norfolk & Western R. Co., 114 Va. 500, 506 , 77 S. E. 612, 614 ;’ Kendricks v. City of Norfolk, 139 Va. 702 , 124 S. E. 210, 214 ; Meade v. Saunders, 151 Va. 636 , 144 S. E. 711 ; Flannagan v. Mutual Ins. Co., 152 Va. 38 , 146 S. E. 353 ; Tabb v. Willis, 155 Va. 836 , 156 S. E. 556 .””

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Cawley v. Hanes · Guill v. Aaron