Ex parte Spears’s Empirical Analysis
1956
Citation profile
10
cited by 10 later decisions
1
states following
June 1971
most recently cited
10 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Griffin v. Proctor · Ingalls Shipbuilding Corporation v. Cahela · Ex Parte State Ex Rel. Atlas Auto Finance Co. · Sadler v. Sessions
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Since the law does not give a judge, after final judgment following a trial, discretionary power to set aside an order made by him, in which he overruled a motion for a new trial, his attempt to do so ex mero motu is not operative and should be vacated. * * * »”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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