Baker v. Canadian National/Illinois Central Railroad

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• acknowledging that surveillance videos contradicting testimony from plaintiffs witnesses were of a substantive nature, regardless of their impeachment value
• reversing a jury verdict “only if the charge as a whole creates a substantial doubt as to whether the jury has been properly guided in its deliberations”
• reversing a jury verdict “only if the charge as a whole creates a substantial doubt as to whether the jury has been properly guided in its deliberations”
• reversing a jury verdict “only if the charge as a whole creates a substantial doubt as to whether the jury has been properly guided in its deliberations”
• “Rule 403’s major function is limited to excluding matter of scant or cumulative probative force, dragged in by the heels for the sake of its prejudicial effect.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).