Starks v. Kelly’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently February 2006 · most notably 772 So. 2d 94 - Joseph v. Broussard Rice Mill, Inc. (2000), 516 So. 2d 452 - Schwamb v. Delta Air Lines, Inc. (1987)
25 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 Arceneaux v. Domingue · Gonzales v. Xerox Corp. · Baumgartner v. State Farm Mut. Auto. Ins. Co. · Temple v. Liberty Mutual Ins. Co. · Sonnier v. Liberty Mutual Insurance Company
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"... A preponderance of the evidence means evidence of greater weight or evidence which is more convincing than that offered in opposition to it...." p. 556.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“Counsel has great latitude in presenting opening or closing arguments to a jury. The trial judge has much discretion in regulating and controlling such arguments within proper bounds. The rulings of the trial court in controlling and regulating the arguments of counsel will not be reversed unless they constitute an abuse of his much discretion.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“although the trial court improperly allowed the initial question concerning Officer Allain's opinion, the subsequent reply was not responsive and did not give improper opinion evidence.”
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.