Okken v. Okken’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
51 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions — most recently September 2024 · most notably First Trust Co. of North Dakota v. Scheels Hardware & Sports Shop, Inc. (1988), State v. Klose (2003)
51 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 Wall v. Pennsylvania Life Insurance Co. · South v. National Railroad Passenger Corp. · Cook v. Stenslie · Nokota Feeds, Inc. v. State Bank of Lakota · Riebe v. Riebe
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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[W]hen a motion for a new trial is made and the reason given in support of the motion is [ ] there was insufficient evidence to justify the verdict, the moving party is asking the trial court to decide whether or not the verdict is against the weight of the evidence.””
11 later decisions quote this exact passage“"In determining if the evidence is sufficient to create an issue of fact, and hence in determining if judgment n.o.v. should be granted, the trial court must employ a rigorous standard with a view toward preserving verdicts. [Citation omitted.] The test is whether or not the evidence, when viewed in the light most favorable to the party against whom the motion is made, leads to but one conclusion as to the verdict about which there can be no reasonable difference of opinion. [Citation omitted.] In employing this standard, the trial judge is not free to consider the weight of the evidence or to judge the credibility of witnesses; on the contrary, he is required to accept the truth of the evidence presented by the party opposing the motion and the truth of all reasonable inferences from that evidence which support the jury verdict. [Citations omitted.] The trial court must give proper deference to the jury's evaluation of the evidence and its judgment of the credibility of witnesses under a motion for judgment n.o.v. "In order to determine whether or not the trial court erred in granting ... motion for judgment n.o.v., we must examine the trial record and then apply the same standard that the trial court was required to apply initially." [Emphasis in original.]”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage“When the sufficiency of the evidence to support a jury verdict is challenged, we will not invade the province of the jury to weigh the evidence or to determine the credibility of witnesses. Our review of questions of fact is limited to consideration of whether there is substantial evidence to sustain the jury’s verdict. In making that determination, we view the evidence in the light most favorable to the verdict.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.