Topic: an error in instructing the jury in a civil case requires r… · Go Syfert
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3 canonical passages across 3 cases, quoted by 14 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 Philip Caballero v. City of Concord Concord Police Dept. R. Perryman R. MacCaro.

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1 Philip Caballero v. City of Concord Concord Police Dept. R. Perryman R. MacCaro Anchor
ca9 · 1992
green “an error in instructing the jury in a civil case requires reversal unless the error is more probably than not harmless.” 7
2 Summers v. Tice
cal · 1948
green “same symmetry of comparative fault or indivisible injury” 4
3 Keiko Larez, and v. William Holcomb, and Cross-Appellee
ca9 · 1994
green “an error in a trial court's jury instructions relating to the parties' respective burdens of proof ordinarily requires reversal.” 3

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