Black v. Hodge’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently January 2019
18 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 Terwilliger v. Marion · Hobgood v. Pennington
Most-quoted passages
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“[T]he essential issue is whether the jury was required to accept [the plaintiffs] uncontradicted testimony that she was injured. Stated in the larger sense, the question is simply this: must a trier of fact always believe uncontradicted testimony? The answer to the question is, plainly, no. The fact that testimony is not contradicted directly does not render it undisputed. There remains the question of the inherent probability of the testimony and the credibility of the witness or the interests of the witness in the result of the litigation. “If there is anything tending to create distrust in his [or her] truthfulness, the question must be left to the jury.” The fact that the collision between the two vehicles was slight, to say the least, together with the fact that [the plaintiff] has an obvious interest in the outcome of the case, is sufficient to cast doubt on the testimony that she was injured. Under the circumstances, the jury had the right to find that she was not injured, and we do not have the right to second-guess the jury.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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