Blessum v. Shelver’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently May 2024
13 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 235 Cal. App. 3d 1220 - Las Palmas Associates v. Las Palmas Center Associates · Andrews v. O'HEARN · Victory Park Apartments, Inc. v. Axelson · First National Bank & Trust Co. of Williston v. Brakken · Wetch v. Wetch
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“is when the misconduct of counsel is so severe that it affects that party's substantial rights or constitutes a denial of a fair trial, thereby placing an independent duty upon the court to confine the attorney to the permissible bounds of argument, where necessary, and admonish the jury.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“We review a trial court's denial of a motion for new trial under an abuse-of-discretion standard.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Although arguments of Blessum's attorney were improper, they were not so serious as to deprive Shelver of a fair trial when there was no objection that would have given the trial court an opportunity to take corrective action. In assessing prejudice, we consider the analysis of the trial court because it was in a better position to weigh the impact of the misconduct.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Nesseth v. Omlid
How this case has been treated — in progress
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