Spaulding Mfg. Co. v. Lowe’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

7 state decisions

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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““The instructions given by the court fairly presented the issues to the jury, and the rule has been frequently announced by this court that where there is competent evidence reasonably tending to support every material averment necessary to uphold the verdict, and the trial court .in its instructions to the jury fully and fairly states the issues and .fixes the burden thereon as the same are presented by the pleadings and evidence, and a verdict is rendered which from all the facts ¿ppears to meet the requirements of justice, which is approved by the trial court, and judgment is rendered in accordance therewith, this court will not reverse the order of the trial court denying a motion for new trial.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. First Nat. Bank v. Beatty