Aldridge v. Patterson’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

22 state decisions

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

1. ““As has been indicated in previous cases, if allowed the unbridled substitution of his own opinion for that of the jury, he could in effect partially abrogate both our jury system and right of appeal by repeatedly setting aside successive verdicts and granting new trials until a verdict was returned that conformed to his own personal idea of an adequate recovery.””

   4 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Hankins v. Brinkman · Hansen v. Cunningham

2. ““1. A trial court’s order sustaining a motion for a new trial in a cause wherein judgment was entered in conformity with a jury’s verdict, will be reversed where it is based, to the exclusion of all others, on a wrong, incorrect or insufficient reason or ground therefor, and there appears to be no tangible, substantial or reasonably certain basis for concluding that if the cause were retried, the result would be different. “2. Before a cause should be retried or reversed on account of the admission of incompetent evidence it should affirmatively appear that the admission of such evidence resulted prej-udicially to the interest of the party seeking the new trial or reversal.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Bentley v. Melton

3. “dead child might have made to his parents' support”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. West v. Board of County Commissioners