Roberts v. Foster’s Empirical Analysis
1952
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently April 1977
5 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.
Most-quoted passages
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“In special ground 5 the movant complains that the following excerpt from the charge, `That as a direct result of the collision, the defendant shows that his truck was damaged, in that the left front fender was smashed in,' could have been understood by the jury as an expression of opinion by the court, and that the word `contends' should have been used instead of the word `shows.' This language was taken from the defendant's cross action, and the trial judge explained before and after his summary of the pleadings that the pleadings were only the contentions of the parties and were not to be considered as evidence. This ground is without merit.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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