Gravette v. Turner’s Empirical Analysis
1919
Citation profile
112 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 112 later decisions — most recently May 1986 · most notably Southern Cotton Oil Co. v. Anderson (1920), Smith, Et Vir v. Burdine's, Inc. (1940)
112 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 Pleasants v. Fant · American Process Co. v. Florida White Pressed Brick Co. · Carney v. Stringfellow · Anderson v. Southern Cotton Oil Co. · German American Lumber Co. v. Brock
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 112 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Even though a verdict should not be directed on the evidence in deference to the organic right to a jury trial and to the statute regulating the subject, yet if on motion for a new trial `where there is conflict in the testimony, it is within the province and power of the court to set aside a verdict which does not reach a substantially just conclusion in cases where the conflicts are of such character and the circumstances of such nature as to give just ground for the belief that the jury acted through prejudice, passion, mistake or any other cause which should not properly control them. This power exists in the court. In exercising it the court does not encroach upon the province of the jury, for the reason that it does not conclusively settle facts in the form of a verdict, but only gives another jury the opportunity of so doing, and of correcting what appears to be a mistake.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The considerations and legal principles that guide the judicial discretion in directing a verdict and in granting a new trial on the evidence are not the same.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“should have been submitted to the jury for their finding on the facts, and not taken from them to be passed upon by the judge as a question of law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.