Richardson v. Davis’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently May 2016
6 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 States Exploration Company v. Reynolds · Bates v. Winkle · Crews v. Shell Oil Company · Reed v. Moore
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"(1) it must be such as will probably change the result if a new trial is granted; (2) it must have been discovered since the trial; (3) it must be such as could not have been discovered before the trial by the exercise of due diligence; (4) it must be material to the issue; (5) it must not be merely cumulative to the former evidence; [and] (6) it must not merely impeach or contradict the former evidence."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“a new trial on the ground of newly discovered evidence rests to a large extent in the discretion of the trial court, whose decision will not be disturbed . . . where no abuse of such discretion is shown.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“view[s] with disfavor motions for new trial based on newly-discovered evidence [and] ha[s] said that [such motions] should be examined with caution.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.