Henson v. Roberts’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently April 2016 · most notably 932 So. 2d 27 - White v. Stewman (2006), 988 So. 2d 364 - Spotlite Skating Rink, Inc. v. Barnes Ex Rel. Barnes (2008)
33 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 467 So. 2d 657 - Bell v. City of Bay St. Louis · 566 So. 2d 1172 - Andrew Jackson Life Ins. Co. v. Williams · Stubblefield v. Jesco, Inc. · 553 So. 2d 40 - Goodwin v. Derryberry Co. · 450 So. 2d 431 - Weems v. American SEC. Ins. 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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The demeanor or bearing, the tone of voice, the attitude and appearance of the witnesses, all are primarily for inspection and review by the jury. The jury not only has the right and duty to determine the truth or falsity of the witnesses, but also has the right to evaluate and determine what portions of the testimony of any witness it will accept or reject; therefore unless it is clear to this Court that the verdict is contrary to the overwhelming weight of the credible testimony, this court will not set aside the verdict of a jury.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Allen v. State · Williams v. State“Once the jury has returned a verdict in a civil case, we are not at liberty to direct that judgment be entered contrary to that verdict short of a conclusion on our part that given the evidence as a whole, taken in the light most favorable to the verdict, no reasonable, hypothetical juror could have found as the jury found.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“`consider the evidence in the light most favorable to the appellee, giving that party the benefit of all favorable inference that may be reasonably drawn from the evidence.'”
3 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.