Fields v. Parker’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
6
cited by 6 later decisions
1
states following
May 1997
most recently cited
6 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Cobb v. Malone · Clark v. Hudson · Alabama Power Company v. Mosley · Airheart v. Green · Thornton v. City of Birmingham
Most-quoted passages
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“"Regrettably, from the standpoint of an appellate court seeking to appraise the correctness of the amount of the judgment appealed from, we are not advantaged as the jury and the trial judge were in observing the [trial of the case].... Nor is there any yardstick to measure the amount of recompense which should be awarded for ... mental suffering. "We must, perforce, rely upon the good judgment of the trial court, an able jurist of long experience, who was so advantaged and who reduced the judgment to the amount stated. On this point we must be impressed with his conclusion and, indeed, it has weight on review, and a favorable presumption as to its correctness is indulged. Thornton v. City of Birmingham, 250 Ala. 651 , 35 So.2d 545 (18); Birmingham Electric Co. v. Howard, 250 Ala. 421 , 34 So.2d 830 (6)." 251 Ala. at 466-467 , 37 So.2d 633 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“involved his judgment based upon his observation *Page 894 of all the witnesses who testified, his consideration of all the evidence, and his awareness of the other incidents of the trial, `[all of] which cannot be reflected in the transcript and which are not available for observation by us.' Airheart, supra; Luquire Funeral Homes Ins. Co. v. Turner , 235 Ala. 305 , 178 So. 536 (1938).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Regrettably, from the standpoint of an appellate court seeking to appraise the correctness of the amount of the judgment appealed from, we are not advantaged as the jury and the trial judge were in observing the [trial of the case].... Nor is there any yardstick to measure the amount of recompense which should be awarded for ... mental suffering.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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