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partial new trial

Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court

Definitions from Case Law

From 283 U.S. 494 - Gasoline Products Co. v. Champlin Refining Co. · 1931Most cited · 1,498 citing opinions

Where the practice permits a partial new trial, it may not properly be resorted to unless it clearly appears that the issue to be retried is so distinct and separable from the others that a trial of it alone may be had without injustice.

How often courts cite the case defining “partial new trial”

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Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “partial new trial” — 1,484 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining case as a whole, not verified uses of the term. The dip in the most recent years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the latest years.