Sharp v. Choctaw Ry. & Lighting Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1912
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently January 1948
12 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 Hogan v. Bailey · City of Sedan v. Church · Trower v. Roberts · Cit. State Bank of Lawton v. Chattanooga State Bank · Ten Cate v. Sharp
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Where a new trial has been granted, both parties have-another opportunity to have a fair and impartial trial upon the merits of the action; hut where a new'trial has been refused,, the matter is ended, unless a reversal can be had. And where the court grants a new trial, and it does not affirmatively appear that the same was upon some pure, simple, and unmixed' question of law, its decision is of controlling force on appeal, and this court will in such cases reverse only where the trial" court has clearly abused its discretion.””
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.