Clayton v. County of Cook

How courts have described this case

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

• holding instruction should not be given where “defendant presented evidence of multifactorial causes of death * * * rather than a sole proximate cause”
• stating that the most important function of a court of review is to provide direction to the trial court as to how to address issues that are likely to arise on remand
• instructing the jury to -9- disregard remarks cures their prejudicial impact
• failure to make an offer of proof results in forfeiture of review of whether the evidence was excluded improperly
• failure to make an offer of proof results in forfeiture of review of whether the evidence was excluded improperly
• generally, sustaining an objection and giving an instruction to the jury cures any prejudicial impact of an error

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).