Stucker v. Bibble’s Empirical Analysis

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13 state decisions

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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[W]e pointed out that when a deficiency or irregularity in a verdict is at once discernible upon the return of the verdict, any party adversely affected and desiring to invoke judicial relief must call the matter to the court’s attention then and there and afford the trial judge the opportunity to have the jury reconsider its verdict and correct its findings. The failure to take such action at a time when the trial judge yet has the jury available is a waiver of the claimed error.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Spalding v. Shinkle · Cooper v. Fultz

2. “[I]t is incumbent upon a litigant who seeks reversal of a trial court’s judgment to demonstrate to the appellate court that the trial court has committed error prejudicial to the substantial rights of the litigant and that the litigant has properly preserved for appellate review the error or errors upon which he relies.”); Harrel v. Yonts, 271 Ky. 783 , 113 S.W.2d 426, 430 (1938) (”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Angel v. Harlan County Board of Education

3. ““Opinions of this kind only serve to confuse and confound lawyers and judges who must try law suits on the trial level. It constitutes another booby trap for the lawyer in the trial of the case.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Cooper v. Fultz