Stevens v. Travelers Insurance Co.

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that trial court’s telling the jurors not to forsake their personal convictions diluted any coercive effect of trial court’s statement that it would disapprove the jury’s failure to reach a verdict
• holding that trial court’s telling the jurors not to forsake their personal convictions diluted any coercive effect of trial court’s statement that it would disapprove the jury’s failure to reach a verdict
• explaining that a successful challenge to the legal sufficiency of the evidence requires rendition of judgment
• noting that the jury deliberated an additional four hours after a weekend break before reaching a verdict
• approving of the use of verdict-urging instructions in civil cases but warning of the inherent “danger of coercion” in their use

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).