Cox v. District Court

How courts have described this case

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

• “A ‘preponderance of the evidence . . .’ simply requires that the evidence show a rational factfinder that a particular fact is more likely than not.”
• “a party is free to contend on appeal that the evidence is insufficient to support a verdict even if the party failed to move for a directed verdict, a j.n.o.v., or new trial in the trial court.”
• “[A] party who movedfor a directed verdict as to a specific claim will be entitled to judgment as a matter of law on that claim if [it] prevails on [its] argument on appeal that the evidence is insufficient to support the verdict as to that claim.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).