Palomba v. Gray’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
163 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 163 later decisions — most recently June 2010 · most notably A-G Foods, Inc. v. Pepperidge Farm, Inc. (1990), Champagne v. Raybestos-Manhattan, Inc. (1989)
163 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 State v. Evans · United States v. S.A. Empresa de Viacao Aerea Rio Grandense · Mather v. Griffin Hospital · State v. Amarillo · Birgel v. Heintz
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 163 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The supervision which a judge has over the verdict is an essential part of the jury system. . . . [The trial court] should not set aside a verdict where it is apparent that there was some evidence upon which the jury might reasonably reach their conclusion, and should not refuse to set it aside where the manifest injustice of the verdict is so plain and palpable as clearly to denote that some mistake was made by the jury in the application of legal principles, or as to justify the suspicion that they or some of them were influenced by prejudice, corruption or partiality.”
13 later decisions quote this exact passage“`The right to a jury trial is fundamental in our judicial system, and . . . the right is one obviously immovable limitation on the legal discretion of the court to set aside a verdict, since the constitutional right of trial by jury includes the right to have issues of fact as to which there is room for a reasonable difference of opinion among fair-minded men passed upon by the jury and not by the court.'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“The trial court possesses inherent power to set aside a jury verdict which, in the court's opinion, is against the law or the evidence.”
4 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.