Harper v. Pratt’s Empirical Analysis
1943
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently December 2011
17 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 Spruce v. Chicago, R. I. & P. RY. CO. · Jarecki Mfg. Co. v. Thames · Avery v. Goodrich · Nale v. Herstein
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The judge who presides at the trial of a case 'hears the testimony of the witnesses, observes their demeanor, and has a full knowledge of the proceedings had and done during the process of the trial, is in a better position to know whether or not substantial justice has been done than any other person. Where such judge sustains a motion for a new trial, it will require a clear showing of manifest error and an abuse of discretion before the appellate court will be justified in reversing such ruling of the trial court. “As the granting of a new trial only places the parties in a position to have the issues between them again submitted to a jury or court, the showing for reversal should be -much stronger where the error assigned is the granting of a new trial than where it is the refusal.””
2 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.