302 So. 2d 262 - Powers v. Malley’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 1995
1 federal appellate · 11 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 Planters Wholesale Grocery v. Kincade · Mississippi Cent. R. v. Roberts
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“can interfere with the verdict, testimony must so strongly preponderate that the Court can safely say it was overwhelmingly in favor of the appellant.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“"The court instructs the jury that under the evidence in this case a reasonably safe speed for the operation of the motor vehicle over and along the road in question was not in excess of 30 miles per hour. The court further instructs you if you believe from a preponderance of the evidence that the defendant, Carlton O. Griffin, was operating said truck immediately prior to the accident at a speed in excess of 30 miles per hour, then in that event, the defendant, Carlton O. Griffin, was negligent and if you further believe from a preponderance of the evidence that such negligence, if any, was a proximate cause of the collision and the death of the said Sylvia P. Jackson, then it is your sworn duty to return a verdict for the plaintiff."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Whenever any motor truck or bus is stopped upon the highway except for the purpose of picking up or discharging passengers, or its lighting equipment is disabled during the period when lighted lamps must be displayed on vehicles and such motor truck or bus cannot immediately be removed from the main traveled portion of a highway outside of a business or residence district, the driver or other person in charge of such vehicle shall cause such flares, fusees [sic], reflectors, or other signals to be lighted or otherwise placed in an operating condition and placed upon the highway, one at a distance of approximately one hundred feet to the rear of the vehicle, one approximately one hundred feet in advance of the vehicle and the third up on the roadway side of the vehicle____”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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