Lynch v. McGovern’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently November 2014
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 Langenstein v. Reynaud · 104 So. 2d 391 - Harrison v. State · 157 So. 2d 427 - Greyhound Corporation v. Ford · 222 So. 2d 754 - Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company v. Griffin · Busbee v. Quarrier
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]f they are erroneous or inadequate the trial judge may amend them or give some other instruction which adequately instructs the jury in the circumstances of the case.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“trial court is required to instruct the jury regarding the law applicable to the facts in evidence and the law of the case.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“* * * it has always been understood — the inference, indeed, is one of the simplest in human experience — that a party’s falsehood or other fraud in the preparation and presentation of his cause, his fabrication or suppression of evidence by bribery or spoliation, and all similar conduct, is receivable against him as an indication of his consciousness that his case is a weak or unfounded one; and from that consciousness may be inferred the fact itself of the cause’s lack of truth and merit (emphasis added).”
1 later decision 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.