COVEL v. Rodriguez’s Empirical Analysis

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1 federal appellate · 19 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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[A]n admonition to the jury to disregard an improper argument cures any prejudice [possibly] created thereby since it cannot be presumed as a matter of law that the jury will fail to heed the admonition given by the court.”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. CARTER v. PENDLEY · 2022 OK CIV APP 19 - LOPEZ-VELAZQUEZ v. GUITTIERREZ DE ALCALA

2. “"In an action at law, a jury verdict is conclusive as to all disputed facts and all conflicting statements, and where there is any competent evidence reasonably tending to support the verdict of the jury, this Court will not disturb the jury's verdict or the trial court's judgment based thereon. Where such competent evidence exists, and no prejudicial errors are shown in the trial court's instructions to the jury or rulings on legal questions presented during trial, the verdict will not be disturbed on appeal. In an appeal from a case tried and decided by a jury an appellate court's duty is not to weigh the evidence and determine which side produced evidence of greater weight, i.e. it is not an appellate court's function to decide where the preponderance of the evidence lies -- that job in our system of justice has been reposed in the jury. In a jury-tried case, it is the jury that acts as the exclusive arbiter of the credibility of the witnesses. Finally, the sufficiency of the evidence to sustain a judgment in an action of legal cognizance is determined by an appellate court in light of the evidence tending to support it, together with every reasonable inference deducible therefrom, rejecting all evidence adduced by the adverse party which conflicts with it." [Citations omitted.]”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. BLACK v. FERRELLGAS · C&H POWER LINE CONSTRUCTION CO. v. ENTERPRISE PRODUCTS OPERATING, LLC

3. “The admission of Dr. Strauss' opinions on causation . . . did not seriously affect the fairness or integrity of the trial. Dr. Strauss' testimony was not so manifestly unreasonable that its admission constituted fundamental error.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. MOORE v. BLACKWELL · 2014 OK CIV APP 37 - MOORE v. BLACKWELL