Griffith v. Casteel’s Empirical Analysis
1958
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently January 2004
10 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 Barrington v. Duncan · Ramirez v. Acker · Ford Butane Eq. Co. v. Carpenter · Wade v. TEXAS EMPLOYERS'INS. ASS'N · Texas & New Orleans Railroad v. Sturgeon
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Respondent argues that the mention of insurance always requires a reversal of the case, because the error is regarded as incurable. We do not agree. When the courts say that an error is incurable, they usually mean that instructions or other curative measures that might be attempted by either the court or counsel will not eliminate the danger of prejudice. Under our practice an appellate court is not authorized to reverse merely because the record discloses some error that is reasonably calculated to cause a miscarriage of justice. The party appealing must also show that it probably did cause the rendition of an improper judgment in the case”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““While the facts set out in appellant’s points five and six may not appear in another trial, yet it is well to observe that it is error for an opposite party to ask questions or to make arguments to the jury or statements to the court before the jury where the jury could infer that the defendant in such a case carried liability insurance. We think the following argument which appellee’s attorney made to the jury is improper: “ ‘This court is here to protect any rights of Sergeant Ulmer has in this matter. The court is here for that. The court doesn’t ask you who is going to pay this verdict or whether it will ever be paid.’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Renegar v. Cramer““We, therefore, conclude that the comment of appellee’s counsel was of the ‘incurable’ type, and that any curative measures that might have been attempted by either the court or counsel could have served only to accentuate and magnify the prejudicial effect of the statement.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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