Brewer v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 319 So. 2d 652 - Paymaster Oil Mill Company v. Mitchell · 310 So. 2d 914 - White v. Thomason · 415 So. 2d 695 - Glenn v. Herring · 281 So. 2d 683 - Delta Wild Life & F., Inc. v. Bear Kelso Plant., Inc. · 228 So. 2d 890 - Ezell v. Metropolitan Insurance Company
Most-quoted passages
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“Rule 50 is a device for the court to enforce the rules of law by taking away from the jury cases in which the facts are sufficiently clear that the law requires a particular result... . ... . The rule enables the court to determine whether there is any question of fact to be submitted to the jury and whether any verdict other than the one directed would be erroneous as a matter of law. .. . ... . [T]he court should look solely to the testimony on behalf of the opposing party; if such testimony, along with all reasonable inferences which can be drawn therefrom, could support a verdict for that party, the case should not be taken from the jury.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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