Sandra Waldron v. Selma C. Hardwick

How courts have described this case

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• holding that unit-of-time arguments are permissible if made subject to suitable cautionary instructions and other appropriate safeguards as necessary
• holding the permission to argue for unit-of-time damages “should be left largely to the discretion of the trial judge”
• leaving the matter to the 18 trial judge’s discretion and suggesting cautionary instructions
• not error to admit plea of guilty to traffic charge as evidence of negligence in civil suit as long as party is \permitted to make a full explanation\
• not error to admit plea of guilty to traffic charge as evidence of negligence in civil suit as long as party is “permitted to make a full explanation”
• declining to adopt an inflexible rule of prohibition

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).