631 So. 2d 693 - Fletcher v. Langley’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently February 2015
14 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 Canter v. Koehring Company · 373 So. 2d 498 - Reck v. Stevens · Jordan v. Travelers Insurance Company · Perniciaro v. Brinch · 594 So. 2d 1332 - Gibson v. Bossier City General Hosp.
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.
“held that the minimal or minor nature of an automobile accident is a fact which may be considered by the jury.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The discretionary power to grant a new trial must be exercised with considerable caution for a successful litigant is entitled to the benefits of a favorable jury verdict. Fact-finding is the province of the jury and a trial court must not overstep its duty in overseeing the administration of justice and unnecessarily usurp the jury's responsibility. A motion for new trial solely on the basis of being contrary to the evidence is directed squarely at the accuracy of the jury's factual determinations and must be viewed in that light. Thus the jury's verdict should not be set aside if it is supportable by any fair interpretation of the evidence. [Emphasis supplied].”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“a new trial shall be granted ... when the jury was bribed or has behaved improperly so that impartial justice has not been done.”
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.