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← 707 A2D 1225 - Hodges v. Brannon

Hodges v. Brannon’s Empirical Analysis

1998

Citation profile

13
cited by 13 later decisions
1
states following
July 2014
most recently cited

11 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Town of Charlotte v. Richmond · Donnelly v. Grey Goose Lines, Inc. · Montecalvo v. Mandarelli · Brodeur v. Desrosiers · Hueston v. Narragansett Tennis Club, Inc.

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

  1. “[a]n erroneous charge warrants reversal only if it can be shown that the jury could have been misled to the resultant prejudice of the complaining party.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “in light of the meaning and interpretation that a jury composed of ordinary, intelligent lay persons would give them,”
    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.