Herrington v. Spell’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
46 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently July 2016 · most notably 764 So. 2d 373 - City of Jackson v. Perry (2000), 897 So. 2d 921 - Payton v. State (2003)
46 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 McFee v. State · 208 So. 2d 886 - Carr v. State · 564 So. 2d 1346 - Palmer v. Biloxi Regional Medical Center, Inc. · 551 So. 2d 188 - Benson v. State · 485 So. 2d 681 - West v. State
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In determining whether a jury verdict is against the overwhelming weight of the evidence, this Court must accept as true the evidence which supports the verdict and will reverse only when convinced that the circuit court has abused its discretion in failing to grant a new trial.”
18 later decisions quote this exact passage“[T]his Court will 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. If the facts so considered point so overwhelmingly in favor of the appellant that reasonable men could not have arrived at a contrary verdict, we are required to reverse and render. On the other hand if there is substantial evidence in support of the verdict, that is, evidence of such quality and weight that reasonable and fair minded jurors in the exercise of impartial judgment might have reached different conclusions, affirmance is required. The above standards of review, however, are predicated on the fact that the trial judge applied the correct law.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“the amount Perry receives from the City of Jackson, with the uninsured motorist benefits he receives from Nationwide. Accordingly, Nationwide's argument is without merit. VII. ¶ 51. The City and Edwards argue that the trial court erred in allowing Officers Charles Smith and Tim Corbitt to testify as experts without being designated pursuant to Rule 4.04A of the Uniform Rules of Circuit and County Court. Rule 4.04A of the Uniform Circuit and County Court Rules, states that,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.