Whitfield v. Cornelius’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently July 2009
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 Shatz v. American Surety Company of New York · Brandenburg v. Burns · Brock v. Farmer · B. F. M. Building, Inc. v. Trice
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.
“The fundamental right to a trial by jury, when a proper demand is made, is recognized by the Kentucky Constitution in Section 7, and incorporated into the Kentucky Rules of Civil Procedure, Rule 38.-01. Civil Rule 39.01 gives the trial judge a limited discretion to remove a ease from a jury in certain special instances only. CR 39.01(3) permits the trial court on its own motion to deny a jury trial where because of the peculiar questions involved, or because the action involves complicated accounts, or a great detail of facts, it is impracticable for a jury intelligently to try the case. The trial judge does not have broad and unlimited discretion to deny a proper jury demand. Such discretion must be exercised in strict conformity to the Civil Rules. The trial court’s findings must be supported by the evidence and must give substantial reasons for the exercise of such discretion.”
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.