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How courts have described this case

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

• holding that Yohannon was not intended to foreclose the grant of a new trial where the party argues the weight, rather than the insufficiency, of the evidence
• holding that Yo-hannon was not intended to foreclose the grant of a new trial where the party argues the weight, rather than the insufficiency, of the evidence
• indicating that a party’s failure to move for judgment as a matter of law operates as a forfeiture of his right to raise a sufficiency-of-the-evidence claim on appeal
• explaining that “new trials because the verdict is against the weight of the evidence are proper only when the record shows that the jury’s verdict resulted in a miscarriage of justice or where the verdict, on the record, cries out to be overturned or shocks our conscience”
• \To determine the preclusive effect of [the plaintiff's] prior state action we must look to the law of the adjudicating state.\
• “To determine the preclusive effect of [the plaintiff’s] prior state action we must look to the law of the adjudicating state.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).