Carney v. Stringfellow’s Empirical Analysis
1917
Citation profile
74 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 74 later decisions — most recently April 1982 · most notably Southern Cotton Oil Co. v. Anderson (1920), Gravette v. Turner (1919)
74 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 Florida East Coast Railway Co. v. Hayes · Ruff v. Georgia, Southern & Florida Railway Co. · McDonald v. State · Armstrong v. State · Schultz v. Pacific Insurance
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 74 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““On writ of error taken under the Statute to an order granting a new trial in a civil action at law the only questions to be considered are those involved in the order granting a new trial. “A stronger showing is required to reverse an order allowing a new trial than to reverse one denying it. “Where the trial court grants a new trial containing several grounds without stating any ground upon which the ruling was. based, the order will be affirmed if any ground of the motion is sufficient to authorize the granting of the new trial. And it must be assumed that the court based the order on the grounds that warrant it. “Where a new trial is granted, and there is such a conflict in the evidence that the court cannot say the trial judge abused his discretion in granting such a new trial, his ruling will not be disturbed. “Where the evidence on a material issue in a cause is conflicting, and it does not so preponderate in favor of the verdict as to show an abuse of discretion or the violation of any provision or settled principle of law in granting a new trial, the action of the trial court will not be disturbed on writ of error. “There are so many matters occurring in the course and progress of a judicial trial that, in the opinion of the judge who tried the case, may affect the merits and justice of the cause to the substantial injury of one of the parties, that of necessity a large discretion should be accorded to the trial court in granting a new trial, to the end that the admi”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The only question to be considered on a writ of error taken under the statute to an order granting a new trial”
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.