Nelson v. Reliance Ins. Co.

How courts have described this case

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

• “We are distressed at an increasing tendency, by the trial bar, to permit the noble art of trial practice to degenerate into a free-for-all.”
• “We are distressed at an increasing tendency, by the trial bar, to permit the noble art of trial practice to degenerate into a free-for-all.”
• failure to object to improper argument is a judgment call by counsel as to how the trial is going and is therefore a tactical decision to waive the error
• trial tactics in closing argument cannot be corrected simply because they backfire

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).