Chase v. Whitmore

How courts have described this case

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

• “the better practice is for the court to follow the specific language of the statute at issue or the suggested pattern jury instructions . . . .”
• “[T]he better practice is for the court to follow the specific language of the statute at issue or the suggested pattern jury instructions, but such strict compliance is not required as long as the principle of law set forth is sufficiently imparted to the jurors.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).