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12 canonical passages across 9 cases, quoted by 99 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 Wei Zhang v. American Gem Seafoods, Inc., Delaware Corporation McMi Food Company, a Texas Corporation Harry Lees, a Natural Person.
| # | Case | Flag | Canonical passage | Citers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Wei Zhang v. American Gem Seafoods, Inc., Delaware Corporation McMi Food Company, a Texas Corporation Harry Lees, a Natural Person Anchor | green | “bound by those grounds that have been historically recognized.” | 13 |
| 2 | Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. Go Daddy Software, Inc. | green | “the evidence permits only one reasonable conclusion, and that conclusion is contrary to the jury's verdict.” | 13 |
| 3 | Silver Sage Partners, Ltd. v. City Of Desert Hot Springs | green | “a district court may not grant a new trial simply because it would have arrived at a different verdict.” | 11 |
| 4 | Carole Krechman v. County of Riverside | green | “substitute its view of the evidence for that of the jury.” | 9 |
| 5 | Landes Construction Co., Inc., Plaintiff-Appellee/cross-Appellant v. Royal Bank of Canada, Defendant-Appellant/cross-Appellee | green | “the judge can weigh the evidence and assess the credibility of witnesses, and need not view the evidence from the perspective most favorable to the prevailing party.” | 8 |
| 6 | Experience Hendrix L.L.C. v. Hendrixlicensing.com Ltd. | green | “can weigh the evidence and assess the credibility of the witnesses.” | 8 |
| 7 | Landes Construction Co., Inc., Plaintiff-Appellee/cross-Appellant v. Royal Bank of Canada, Defendant-Appellant/cross-Appellee | green | “left with the definite and firm conviction that a mistake has been committed” | 7 |
| 8 | Wei Zhang v. American Gem Seafoods, Inc., Delaware Corporation McMi Food Company, a Texas Corporation Harry Lees, a Natural Person | green | “historically recognized grounds include, but are not limited to, claims 'that the verdict is against the weight of the evidence, that the damages are excessive, or that, for other reasons, the trial was not fair to the party moving.” | 7 |
| 9 | Molski v. M.J. Cable, Inc. | green | “rather, the court is 'bound by those grounds that have been historically recognized.” | 7 |
| 10 | Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. Go Daddy Software, Inc. | green | “a party cannot properly 'raise arguments in its post-trial motion for judgment as a matter of law that it did not first raise in its rule 50(a) pre-verdict motion.” | 6 |
| 11 | Jennifer L. Passantino v. Johnson & Johnson Consumer Order And Products, Inc. | green | “the district court has 'the duty . . . to weigh the evidence as the court saw it, and to set aside the verdict of the jury, even though supported by substantial evidence, where, in the court's conscientious opinion, the verdict is contrary to the clear weight of the evidence.” | 5 |
| 12 | Freund v. Nycomed Amersham | green | “such relevant evidence as reasonable minds might accept as adequate to support a conclusion, even if it is possible to draw two inconsistent conclusions from the evidence” | 5 |
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.