Marshall v. Rugg’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

15 state decisions

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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““ ‘Where an appellate court is empowered to revise upon the facts, it can never reverse on them simply because upon tlie evidence, as submitted to it, it would bave arrived at a different conclusion; and can only reverse when the verdict, or if the trial was by the court without a jury, the findings were so clearly against the weight of evidence that no mind of fair intelligence and faithfully exercised can be reasonably supposed to have arrived at the result which is complained of; or to state the rule in a different form, but as conveying the| same idea, tends to an opposite conclusion ; ’ which is to say, reducing the rule to a brevity, where the evidence is all one way and the verdict or findings another. ’ ””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Worland v. Davis