Webster County v. Lutz’s Empirical Analysis
1930
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently May 1995
3 federal appellate · 12 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 Osborn v. President Directors and Company of the Bank of the United States · Harlan County v. Cole · Strode v. Strode · Layman v. Beeler · Moore v. Lawrence County
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The court has a wide discretion in granting-new trials, and that discretion will not be interfered with by this court unless a manifest injustice has been done one of, the parties. Strode, Executrix, v. Strode, 194 Ky. 665 , 240 S. W. 368 , 27 A. L. R. 313. One of the grounds for a new trial after the verdict of the jury at the first trial was that the-attorney representing the county made an improper argument to the jury. It was near the border line of what is proper or improper, and for that reason we cannot hold that the trial judge abused a sound discretion in granting a new trial.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Clark v. Bean
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.