Beyer v. Todd’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

10 state decisions

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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “The district court must give a requested jury instruction if the instruction (1) correctly states the law, (2) has application to the case, and (3) is not stated elsewhere in the instructions.... When we weigh the sufficiency of the evidence to support a requested instruction, we review the evidence in the light most favorable to the party seeking the instruction. A district court’s failure to give a requested instruction does not require a reversal unless the failure results in prejudice to the party requesting the instruction.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Banks v. Beckwith

2. “Parties are entitled to have their legal theories submitted to the jury if they are supported by the pleadings and substantial evidence in the record.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Weyerhaeuser Co. v. Thermogas Co.