Montgomery v. Murray’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently July 2021
12 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 Muskogee Electric Traction Co. v. Reed · Casualty Reciprocal Exchange v. Sutfin · Houston v. Pettigrew · Aldridge v. Patterson · Layton v. Purcell
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[P]robability of a change in the outcome of a lawsuit is the test of prejudice this Court has long employed in alleged errors of practice and procedure.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“By renouncing the so-called “conscience” rule [citations omitted] we have recognized that a trial court’s power to grant new trials is limited by the bounds of judicial discretion; and thus, in effect, have renounced the statement in Spence v. Park, [ 207 Okla. 215 , 248 P.2d 1000 (1952)] to the effect that a trial court ‘... may grant a new trial on account of any error or misconduct which in the conscience of the court is sufficient justification for this action.’”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Clark v. Bearden“the interrogation . . . concerning a matter irrelevant to the issue of the defendant's liability . . . injected into the case 'beneficial prejudice' that experience has demonstrated will usually affect verdicts.”
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.