36 Tenn. App. 391 - McLaughlin v. Broyles’s Empirical Analysis
1952
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently June 2000 · most notably Austin v. Ridge (1969), 43 Tenn. App. 147 - Benson v. Fowler (1957)
27 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 27 Tenn. App. 182 - Davis v. Mitchell · 27 Tenn. App. 249 - Third Nat. Bank v. American Equitable Ins. Co. of New York · Cumberland Telephone & Telegraph Co. v. Smithwick · Hime v. Sullivan · 25 Tenn. App. 539 - Tiffany v. Shipley
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In these cases where the evidence is in sharp conflict the Court does not feel that he has a right to interfere with the verdict of the jury, and overrules the motions.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“The reasons given for the rule are, in substance, that the circuit judge hears the testimony, just as the jury does, sees the witnesses, and observes their demeanor upon the witness stand; that, by [the judge’s] training and experience in the weighing of testimony, and the application of legal rules thereto, [the judge] is especially qualified for the correction of any errors in to which the jury by inexperience may have fallen, whereby they have failed, in their verdict, to reach the justice and right of the case, under the testimony and charge of the court; that, in our system, this is one of the functions the circuit judge possesses and should exercise — as it were, that of a thirteenth juror. So it is said that [the judge] must be satisfied, as well as the jury; that it is [the judge’s] duty to weigh the evidence, and if [the judge] is dissatisfied with the verdict of the jury, [the judge] should set it aside.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Dankworth
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.