Champeau v. Fruehauf Corp.

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that district court prejudiced parties because interfering with their expert’s testimony 145 times “likely confused the jury or led them to believe that the court found appellees’ expert’s testimony incomprehensible”
• holding there was prejudice when the court interfered with expert testimony 145 times
• affirming the district court's admission of videotaped experiment not conducted under identical circumstances in part because district court remedied the problem by submitting to the jury a written list of differences and similarities
• granting a new trial where the trial judge interrupted the trial testimony 145 times, led an expert witness into irrelevant discussions, and “completely confused and perhaps misstated what the expert had said”
• affirming the district court’s admission of videotaped experiment not conducted under identical circumstances in part because district court remedied the problem by submitting to the jury a written list of differences and similarities
• Fed. R. Civ. P. 59(a) does not require court to specify reasons for ruling, but good practice to do so

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

26 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Terry Wayne Sanders v. Clemco Industries and Ingersoll-Rand Company
  Eighth Circuit· 1988-11-30· cited 330×
• United States v. Harry Greenspan, AKA Alfred A. Lugo, AKA Alfred Anthony Lugo, AKA Alex Lugo, AKA Alex Stone
  Tenth Circuit· 1994-06-06· cited 122×
• Turnpike Motors, Inc. v. Newbury Group, Inc.
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1992-07-16· cited 108×
• Evelyn and Jack Lewy v. Remington Arms Co., Inc.
  Eighth Circuit· 1988-03-14· cited 83×
• Willie L. Harris v. Steelweld Equipment Company, Inc.
  Eighth Circuit· 1989-03-06· cited 57×
• Paul Warren v. Judy Fanning Dr. Taca, Paul Warren v. Judy Fanning, Dr. Taca
  Eighth Circuit· 1991-11-21· cited 55×
• Kudlacek v. Fiat S.P.A.
  Nebraska Supreme Court· 1994-01-07· cited 55×
• Persian Galleries, Inc. v. Transcontinental Insurance Company, Cross-Appellee
  Sixth Circuit· 1994-10-07· cited 45×
• Billy R. Johnson and Beverly A. Johnson v. Cowell Steel Structures, Inc., F/k/a B.C. Steel Co.
  Eighth Circuit· 1993-04-16· cited 41×
• Datskow v. Teledyne Continental Motors Aircraft Products
  W.D. New York· 1993-07-15· cited 35×
• McKnight ex rel. Ludwig v. Johnson Controls, Inc.
  Eighth Circuit· 1994-09-30· cited 31×
• Stafford v. State
  W.D. Missouri· 1993-10-13· cited 18×
• Unnamed case
  Eighth Circuit· 1994-09-30· cited 15×
• David Russell v. Edward Anderson
  Eighth Circuit· 2020-07-15· cited 15×
• Dunn v. Nexgrill Industries, Inc.
  Eighth Circuit· 2011-02-25· cited 13×
• Dustin Reinard v. Crown Equipment Corporation
  Eighth Circuit· 2020-12-30· cited 9×
• Dorothy Van Leirsburg v. Sioux Valley Hospital, a South Dakota Corporation
  Eighth Circuit· 1987-10-13· cited 8×
• Grose v. Nissan North America, Inc.
  Missouri Court of Appeals· 2001-05-22· cited 8×
• Behlke v. Conwed Corp.
  Court of Appeals of Minnesota· 1991-08-06· cited 7×
• Zimmer v. Travelers Insurance
  S.D. Iowa· 2007-11-20· cited 3×

Cites

23 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Allied Chemical Corp. v. Daiflon, Inc.
  Supreme Court· 1980-11-17· cited 1,679×
• American Postal Workers Union v. United States Postal Service
  Supreme Court· 1986-03-03· cited 110×
• Mack v. Brenner
  Supreme Court· 1966-01-17· cited 109×
• Vivian Sprynczynatyk and Paul Sprynczynatyk, Appellees/cross-Appellants v. General Motors Corporation, Appellant/cross-Appellee
  Eighth Circuit· 1985-09-17· cited 97×
• A. C. Newman, Jr., Plaintiff-Appellee-Cross v. A. E. Staley Manufacturing Company, a Corporation, Defendant-Appellant-Cross
  Fifth Circuit· 1981-06-18· cited 82×
• United States v. Singer
  Eighth Circuit· 1983-06-20· cited 79×
• Chitta R. Nanda, Cross-Appellant v. Ford Motor Company, Cross-Appellee
  Seventh Circuit· 1975-03-25· cited 75×
• Patricia Kay McGowne (Kozik), Jimmy Dewayne McGowne Ronald Kevin McGowne v. Challenge-Cook Bros., Inc.
  Eighth Circuit· 1982-03-10· cited 71×
• General Motors Corporation v. Tate
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1974-12-09· cited 52×
• Unnamed case
  Eighth Circuit· 1984-07-25· cited 51×
• Melissa Suzanne Brown, a Minor by Her Next Friend, Martin Brown, Martin Brown and Susan Brown v. Syntex Laboratories, Inc. And Syntex Corporation
  Eighth Circuit· 1985-02-26· cited 51×
• Vera Randall v. Warnaco, Inc., Hirsch-Weis Division
  Eighth Circuit· 1982-05-10· cited 38×
• Crane v. Consolidated Rail Corp.
  Second Circuit· 1984-03-30· cited 35×
• Patterson v. F.W. Woolworth Co.
  Eighth Circuit· 1986-03-25· cited 32×
• Aloysius Harkins v. Ford Motor Company
  Third Circuit· 1970-12-28· cited 28×
• Harlan Lane v. Frank E. Chowning
  Eighth Circuit· 1979-12-06· cited 27×
• Jerrell Powell and Mrs. Sally Bargeron v. Lititz Mutual Insurance Company
  Fifth Circuit· 1970-01-12· cited 26×
• McCormick v. Custom Pools, Inc.
  Court of Appeals of Minnesota· 1985-11-05· cited 26×
• Theodore E. Walther, of the Estate of James A. Walther, Deceased v. Omaha Public Power District and Floyd L. Neal
  Eighth Circuit· 1969-07-07· cited 18×
• Aimor Electric Works, Ltd. v. Omaha National Bank
  Eighth Circuit· 1984-02-03· cited 11×