5 canonical passages across 3 cases, quoted by 34 opinions in total. These passages cluster together because the same opinions keep quoting them side by side — they state parts of one doctrine. The anchor passage is from Parr, J. v. Ford Motor Company.
| # | Case | Flag | Canonical passage | Citers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Parr, J. v. Ford Motor Company Anchor | green | “an abuse of discretion may not be found merely because an appellate court might have reached a different conclusion, but requires a manifest unreasonableness, or partiality, prejudice, bias, or ill-will, or such lack of support so as to be clearly erroneous.” | 12 |
| 2 | Hart v. W.H. Stewart, Inc. | green | “an evidentiary ruling which did not affect the verdict will not provide a basis for disturbing the jury's judgment.” | 10 |
| 3 | Oxford Presbyterian Church v. Weil-McLain Co., Inc. | green | “must therefore show error in the evidentiary ruling and resulting prejudice, thus constituting an abuse of discretion by the lower court.” | 5 |
| 4 | Oxford Presbyterian Church v. Weil-McLain Co., Inc. | green | “in order to find that the trial court's evidentiary rulings constituted reversible error, such rulings must not only have been erroneous but must also have been harmful to the complaining party.” | 4 |
| 5 | Hart v. W.H. Stewart, Inc. | green | “an erroneous evidentiary ruling on damages, in a case where the jury has found for the defendant on the liability issue, is harmless and does not entitle the plaintiff to a new trial.” | 3 |
A red or yellow flag on a member means the underlying case has negative treatment — for those, check the case page before relying on the passage.