Helton v. Easter’s Empirical Analysis
1962
Citation profile
8
cited by 8 later decisions
1
states following
September 1982
most recently cited
8 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Godfrey v. Vinson · Indemnity Ins. Co. of North America v. Turnipseed · Crocker v. Lee · Montgomery City Lines, Inc. v. Davis · Birmingham Stove & Range Co. v. Vanderford
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Charge 1, given at defendant’s request, was proper. Each count ascribed some cause for the explosion, and, if the particular cause ‘lay wholly within the realm of conjecture and doubt,’ there should not have been a verdict for plaintiff. This was the effect of this instruction, which was proper. It was probably argumentative, but it was not erroneous. The court can give or refuse such charges without committing error. i{C jjc í¡í i{í “ * * * If misleading, it is not, for that reason, necessarily reversible error to give it. this could be cured by an explanatory charge requested by plaintiff. * * * »”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Clark v. Smith
How this case has been treated — in progress
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