Hogan v. Bailey’s Empirical Analysis
1910
Citation profile
94 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 96 later decisions — most recently February 2026 · most notably Exchange Bank of Wewoka v. Bailey (1911), Montague v. State Ex Rel. Commissioners of the Land Office (1939)
94 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 City of Sedan v. Church · Trower v. Roberts · Cit. State Bank of Lawton v. Chattanooga State Bank · Ten Cate v. Sharp · Yarnell v. Kilgore
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 96 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The approval of a verdict does not mean that formal airproval which is inferred from the act of rendering judgment on it, but it means the assent and approval of the mind, after due consideration; and when the mind of the court refuses to concur in the correctness of a verdict, and its honest convictions lead it to believe that it ought to have been for the other party, then the verdict is not .supported by the evidence so as to merit its approval, for in passing on a motion for a new trial, it i@ the court, and not the jury, that must weigh and determine the effects of the evidence. It cannot be said that a court approves a verdict when its reason and judgment rebel against the conclusion it expresses. The rule requiring a juror to be satisfied with a verdict is no stronger than the rule which makes it the duty of the trial -court to approve or disapprove a verdict, as dictated by its own conscience and judgment. * ” * The law here imposes a duty, the faithful and conscientious performance of which neither the press of business nor any other embarrassing conditions, will excuse.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. White v. Dougal““It is insisted on the part of counsel for movant that, the court having once acted on the motion for a new trial, its power over the case and the order thus made was final and conclusive, and that the ruling made on the motion filed to vacate and set aside such order was error. The rule obtaining in all courts of general jurisdiction, except where restricted by some statute, is that during the whole term at which a judgment or order is rendered it remains subject to the plenary control of the court, and, where the administration of justice will be conserved thereby, it may be vacated and set aside, modified, or annulled. This power over the judgments and orders of such a court is not dependent upon any statute. but is inherent in the court itself.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Barnes v. Bruce““* * * Trial courts are invested with a very large and extended discretion in the granting of new trials; and new trials ought to be granted whenever in the opinion of the trial court the party asking for the new trial has not in all probability had a reasonably fair trial, and has not in all probability obtained or received substantial justice, although it might be difficult for the trial court or the parties to state the grounds for such new trial upon paper so plainly that ithe Supreme Court could understand them as well as the trial court and the parties themselves undlerstood them.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. White v. Dougal
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.