Smith v. Bailey (Two Cases)’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

11 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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““The granting of a new trial on the ground asserted (inadequacy of the jury’s award) is a matter for the exercise of judicial discretion by the trial Judge, and the power to overturn the jury verdict for this reason should be exercised * * * with great caution and only in exceptional cases.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Simms v. Scott