220 So. 2d 345 - Colson v. Sims’s Empirical Analysis

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31 state decisions

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

1. “The denial of a continuance in the trial court is not reviewable unless the party whose motion for continuance was denied makes a motion for a new trial on this ground, making the necessary proof to substantiate the motion.”

   9 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Smith v. State · Jackson v. State

2. “The appellees contend that even if the items of medical expense were provable by a local doctor, the appellant in this case could not argue this point on appeal, because, it is said, he did not raise this ground in his motion for a new trial. He cannot now, therefore, put the trial court in error on a point on which it had no opportunity to rule. This argument is not tenable: first — because the trial court did pass upon the issue and did not permit the introduction of the evidence; and second — it is not necessary to make a motion for a new trial in order to preserve the question for appeal where the error is the failure to permit the introduction of essential evidence. Deposit Guaranty Bank and Trust Co. v. Silver Saver Stores, 166 Miss. 882 , 148 So. 367 (1933).”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 628 So. 2d 1355 - Kiddy v. Lipscomb