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937 So. 2d 996 - Pearson v. State’s Empirical Analysis

2006

Citation profile

4
cited by 4 later decisions
1
states following
May 2018
most recently cited

4 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on McClain v. State · 440 So. 2d 297 - Groseclose v. State · 691 So. 2d 948 - Herring v. State · 460 So. 2d 778 - May v. State · 551 So. 2d 188 - Benson 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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “In determining whether a jury verdict is against the overwhelming weight of the evidence the court must accept as true the evidence which supports the verdict and will reverse only when convinced that the circuit court has abused its discretion in failing to grant a new trial.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “[t]he court will not order a new trial unless convinced that the verdict is so contrary to the overwhelming weight of the evidence that, to allow it to stand, would be to sanction an unconscionable injustice.”
    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.