Ketchum v. New York

How courts have described this case

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

• concluding that the dictionary definitions “did not accurately reflect applicable law as set forth in the jury instructions”
• finding that the dictionary definitions related to “crucial” terms in the case
• stating the first consideration as “[t]he importance of the word or phrase being defined to the resolution of the case,” and concluding that, in that case, the dictionary definitions that a juror had improperly consulted were “crucial” to resolution of the case
• stating this question as part of the fourth factor
• stating this as the fifth factor

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).