Fry v. Alexander’s Empirical Analysis

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9 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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “"Then comes the ultimate question hereinbefore indicated. In such a case may a trial judge grant a new trial just because (as this judgment recites) he does not agree with the jury's verdict? We think a complete answer to this question is given in the recent opinion this Court promulgated in Hansen v. Cunningham, Okl., 285 P.2d 432 , and the cases therein cited. Therein it is clearly demonstrated that to grant a new trial in such a situation is an abuse of the sound legal discretion vested in the trial judge and is in derogation of our system of jurisprudence in which the jury is the trier of the facts. wok ock!”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Neely v. Morris · Croft v. Dodson

2. ““We have examined not only the evidence but also the trial proceedings as a whole. We find no. error either in the instructions or elsewhere in the record that can be held prejudicial to plaintiff or valid ground for setting aside the jury’s verdict.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Foltz v. Nicholson