Flores v. Bell

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that, in a civil action, a judgment only will be reversed if the lower court committed an error and the error prejudiced the party challenging the judgment
• stating that “[t]he burden is on the complaining party to show prejudice as well as error”
• noting that the burden is upon the complaining party to show both the probability of prejudice and error that is both “manifestly wrong and substantially injurious”
• noting that the burden is upon the complaining party to show both the probability of prejudice and error that is both \manifestly wrong and substantially injurious\
• observing that an error “can be declared prejudicial for the simple reason that the court is unable to declare a belief one way or the other as to the probable effect of the error on a particular judgment.”
• describing the holding in Fry as follows: “Because we were unable to determine the conclusions utilized by the jury in making its decision, it was possible and probable that the jury relied on the improper instruction as a basis for its verdict.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).