Staten v. McMahan’s Empirical Analysis
1959
Citation profile
4
cited by 4 later decisions
1
states following
April 1965
most recently cited
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on St. Louis Trading Co. v. Barr · Gassaway v. Skiveers · Dunn v. T. J. Cannon Co. · Producers' Supply Co. v. Shirley · Sosbee v. Clark
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Errors occurring during the trial of a case cannot be considered in this court unless a motion for a new trial founded upon and including such errors has been made by the party complaining and presented to the trial court and by it denied.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hyre v. Pratt
How this case has been treated — in progress
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