Reed v. Bates’s Empirical Analysis
1930
Citation profile
4
cited by 4 later decisions
1
states following
February 1978
most recently cited
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Boswell v. Pannell · Wootton v. Jones · Southern Traction Co. v. Wilson · St. Louis Southwestern Ry. Co. of Texas v. Wadsack · Dwyer v. Bassett & Bassett
Most-quoted passages
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“The fundamental objection to such instructions is that the law, in our opinion, prescribes no rule for the court to lay down, except that the jury are to find in accordance with the truth as their judgments, honestly applied to the evidence, lead them to believe it to be, or, as their oath expresses it, ‘that they will a true verdict render according to the law . and the evidence.’”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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