Cole v. Raut’s Empirical Analysis
2008
Citation profile
40 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Clark v. Cantrell · Davenport v. Cotton Hope Plantation Horizontal Property Regime · Buckner v. Preferred Mutual Insurance · Anderson Ex Rel. Estate of Anderson v. West · Proctor v. Department of Health & Environmental Control
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“An appellate court will not reverse the trial court's decision regarding jury instructions unless the trial court committed an abuse of discretion.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“An abuse of discretion occurs when the trial court's ruling is based on an error of law or is not supported by the evidence.”
2 later decisions 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.