State of Maryland Deposit Insurance Fund Corp. v. Billman

How courts have described this case

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• reiterating that appellate court balances the probability of prejudice from the face of the extraneous matter with the circumstances of the particular case
• reiterating that appellate court balances the probability of prejudice from the face of the extraneous matter with the circumstances of the particular case
• affirming that the Court will not reverse an error below unless the error was both manifestly wrong and substantially injurious
• “It is not the possibility, but the probability, of prejudice which is the object of appellant inquiry.”
• “In determining whether [the error] prejudicially affected the outcome of a civil case, the appellate court balances the probability of prejudice from the face of the extraneous matter with the circumstances of the particular case[.]”
• “In determining whether [the error] ... prejudicially affected the outcome of a civil case, the appellate court balances ‘the probability of prejudice from the face of the extraneous matter in relation to the circumstances of the particular ease[.]’ ”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).