McNair v. Davis’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently March 2013
17 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 Mills v. Ball · 484 So. 2d 6 - Florida Bar v. Goodman · 359 So. 2d 430 - Wackenhut Corp. v. Canty · 401 So. 2d 1341 - Ford Motor Co. v. Kikis · 474 So. 2d 825 - Wasden v. Seaboard Coast Line R. Co.
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A verdict is against the clear weight of the evidence where the evidence `is clear, obvious and indisputable.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“to impanel itself as a `seventh juror with veto power.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“allows this court to reverse some of the more extreme discretionary decisions of trial courts, this is a very deferential standard. On a motion for new trial, however, the trial judge is permitted to decide that the percentage of negligence is contrary to the manifest weight of the evidence only if that evidence is”
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.