91 So. 2d 200 - State v. Coles’s Empirical Analysis
1956
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently March 2004 · most notably 161 So. 2d 864 - Darty v. State (1964), Gonzalez v. State (1984)
26 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 Garner v. State · Seaver Ex Rel. Seaver v. Stratton · Gladden v. State · Ivey v. State · Kirkland and Stokes v. State
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We are fully conscious of and are committed to following the rule of law that an appellate court will not disturb an order of a trial court granting a new trial unless it appears that the trial judge abused his discretion. However, where the only real question is the sufficiency of the evidence to sustain a verdict, as we construe this case to be, and where there is sufficient evidence to sustain the verdict, we do not believe that the trial court is warranted in pitting his judgment against that of the jury. It is error for the trial court to do so.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Where the evidence is sufficient to sustain the verdict a new trial should not be granted unless it is clear that injustice will result if not granted.”
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.