8 Utah 2d 42 - Bodon Ex Rel. Bodon v. Suhrmann’s Empirical Analysis
1958
Citation profile
33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently March 1997 · most notably 66 Cal. 2d 821 - Jehl v. Southern Pacific Co. (1967), Drummond v. Mid-West Growers Cooperative Corp. (1975)
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 Dimick v. Schiedt · Dorsey v. Barba · 38 Cal. 2d 350 - Dorsey v. Barba · 1 Utah 2d 1 - Paul v. Kirkendall · 1 Utah 2d 362 - Wilson v. Oldroyd
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.
“We are not here concerned with any question as to whether the disparity in the verdict is so gross as to indicate that the whole verdict is so suffused with passion and prejudice that it should be entirely set aside. The contention here is that the verdict is outside the limits of what appears justifiable under the evidence to the extent that it should not be permitted to stand. In such instances the remedy is to order a modification of the verdict to bring it within the evidence; and the adverse party is given the choice of accepting it or taking a new trial. This alternative does not infringe upon the right of trial by jury, because the party favored by the order has had his trial by jury and is seeking relief from the inadequacy of the jury verdict, while the party adversely affected always can choose the new trial if he so desires, (footnotes omitted) [ 8 Utah 2d at 45 , 327 P.2d at 828-29 ]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Viveiros v. State
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.