Binette v. Deane’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently December 2016
23 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 Cope v. Sevigny · Chenell v. Westbrook College · White v. Schofield · Kennebec Towage Co. v. State · Kimball v. Bauckman
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Upon a motion for a new trial, the movant “must show that the jury verdict was.so manifestly or clearly wrong that it is apparent that the conclusion of the jury was the result of prejudice, bias, passion, or a mistake of law or fact.” Kennebec Towage Co. v. State, 142 Me. 327, 334 , 52 A.2d 166, 169 (1947). “The verdict must stand unless there is found in the record no credible evidence to support it.” Larsen v. Lane, 156 Me. 66, 68 , 158 A.2d 759, 760 (1960). Moreover, on a motion for a new trial, the evidence must be viewed in the light most favorable to the successful party.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Daniel v. Ouellette“Where the evidence . . . discloses that two arguable reasonable theories were presented to the jury for adoption, both being sustained by credible evidence, and one is reflected in the verdict, it would have been an abuse of discretion for the Justice below to override the jury decision and set aside the verdict. The degree of credibility to which witnesses are entitled is for the jury and not the court to decide.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“In deciding the correctness of the action taken by the presiding Justice we cannot substitute our judgment for his. His order may be reversed by us only ‘in the event that a clear and manifest abuse of discretion on the part of the trial judge is shown.’”
1 later decision 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.