Napier v. Jacobs

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that, in our adversarial system, the litigants frame the issues and present them to the court
• stating that the loss of a favorable jury verdict does not amount to a manifest injustice, even though it cost the appellant $60,000
• noting that the discretion to reach and decide unpreserved issues should be exercised “quite sparingly”
• noting that, within this adversarial system, the parties frame the issues and present them to the court
• noting that the parties’ constitutional rights to a trial by jury were implicated and stating that “[t]his Court has ruled that such power of review is to be exercised quite sparingly . . . .”
• noting that the parties’ constitutional rights to a trial by jury were implicated and stating that “[t]his Court has ruled that such power of review is to be exercised quite sparingly . . . .”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).