Lucas v. Hockett’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently May 2016
4 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 Vickers v. Philip Carey Co. · States Exploration Company v. Reynolds · DuBoise v. DuBoise · Stills v. Mayor · Ralston v. Tucker
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 4 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“relief on a motion for new trial on the ground of newly-discovered evidence has the burden of establishing that his failure to produce such evidence at the trial was not due to a lack of diligence on his part.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“A party will not be granted a new trial on the ground of newly discovered evidence where he went to trial knowing of its absence, unless he took proper steps for a continuance. (citations omitted)”
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.