Melo v. Spencer’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
10
cited by 10 later decisions
2
states following
January 2014
most recently cited
10 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Ardoline v. Keegan · Munson v. Atwood · Chieffalo v. Norden Systems, Inc.
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.
“A trial court has the `inherent power to set aside a verdict where it finds it has made, in its . . . rulings on evidence. . . . a palpable error which was harmful to the proper disposition of the case and probably brought about a different result in the verdict.' Munson v. Atwood , 108 Conn. 285 , 288 , 142 A. 737 (1928). `It is proper for a trial court, using due caution, and in the exercise of its discretion, to set aside a verdict' when satisfied that . . . its rulings on evidence were erroneous and that those erroneous . . . rulings were consequential enough to have had a substantial effect on the verdict' Ardoline v. Keegan , 140 Conn. 552 , 555-56 , 102 A.2d 352 (1954)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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