61 Tenn. App. 571 - Ridley v. Spence’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
16 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Bennett v. Railroad Co. · 24 Cal. 2d 133 - Oettinger v. Stewart · 47 Tenn. App. 438 - General Motors Corporation v. Dodson · 29 Tenn. App. 327 - Poole v. First Nat. Bank of Smyrna · Frederick v. Philadelphia Rapid Transit 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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““As has been held in numerous cases in this State the rule for determining a motion for a directed verdict requires the trial Judge and the reviewing Court on appeal to look at all of the evidence, to take the strongest legitimate view of it in favor of the opponent of the motion, and to allow all reasonable inferences from it in his favor; to discard all countervailing evidence, and if then, there is any dispute as to any material determinative evidence, or any doubt as to the conclusion to be drawn from the whole evidence, the motion must be denied.’ 456 S.W.2d at 848 .”
4 later decisions 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.