Scott v. Wallace’s Empirical Analysis

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3 state decisions

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1. ““With these rules of law established, as they are, by a long list of precedents, the question resolves itself into one of fact, whether or not the defendants have been damaged. The query is, whether their alleged damage, when tested by the standard of Ward v. Jenson, supra, amounts to something or nothing.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Selman v. Shirley