MacKenzie v. Angle’s Empirical Analysis
1947
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently January 1970 · most notably Carbine v. Meyer (1954), 88 Cal. App. 2d 34 - People v. Bean (1948)
30 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 Mazzotta v. Los Angeles Railway Corp. · Douglas v. Southern Pacific Co. · Harrison v. Sutter Street Railway · Cahill v. E. B. & A. L. Stone Co. · Waer v. Waer
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The discretion must be reasonably exercised to the accomplishment of justice, and where there appears to be a reasonable or even fairly debatable justification therefor, an order granting a new trial will not be set aside, although a. contrary order might not be disapproved or the appellate court might be inclined to take a different view.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Teixeira v. Domingos
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.