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Eighth Circuit· 3/13/1985

Hale v. Firestone Tire & Rubber Co.

Citations

  • 756 F.2d 1322
  • 1 Fed. R. Serv. 3d 1602

How courts have described this case

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

  • acknowledging that comments made by the district court outside the presence of the jury do “not affect the jury”
  • \a party may not offer evidence or advance theories during trial which violate the terms of a pretrial order.\
  • district court improperly allowed evidence of prior accidents involving “explosive separation of RH5° rims, with no restriction as to the circumstances or the dates of the accidents”
  • “An objection at trial on one ground will not enable the objecting party to rely on appeal on other grounds that were not stated in the trial objection.”
  • district court improperly allowed evidence of prior accidents involving “explosive separation of RH5E rims, with no restriction as to the circumstances or the dates of the accidents”
  • court’s comment in product liability case that he had “put air in a lot of tires, but [he] never had one blow up on [him]” not sufficient for reversal, because this was a minor incident in a lengthy trial

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Judges: McMillian

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89 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

Cites

68 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

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