McCarty v. McCarty’s Empirical Analysis

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1 state decisions

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1. ““Some certain rule on the subject now before the Court would be most acceptable; it is not easily prescribed. I have examined the cases referred to in the argument, and such as I have been able otherwise to collect, and at last it would seem that when questions for new trials arise, founded on such complaints, they must depend rather on judicial discretion, than upon any strict law or absolute right; and whether, as a consequence, in any given case, the verdict should be avoided, must depend on the abuse presumed or proved to have followed, and the substantial justice of the case. (Graham on New Trials, 66, 85; Pulaski & Co. v. Ward & Co., 2 Rich. 119 .)””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. Loftis