Swift v. Bagby’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently July 1996
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 Aiken Ex Rel. Aiken v. Clary · Olian Ex Rel. Olian v. Olian · Butcher v. Main · Girratono v. Kansas City Public Service Company · Bunch v. Crader
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.
“A trial court is afforded wide discretion in passing on a motion for a new trial which raises an issue concerning the qualification of jurors. Its power to grant a new trial is discretionary only as to questions of fact, and the qualifications of jurors are questions of fact and matters affecting the determination of issues of fact.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Holtgrave v. Hoffman
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.