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← 24 ILLCTCL 114 - Egan v. State

Egan v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1961

Citation profile

1
cited by 1 later decisions
1
states following
September 1976
most recently cited

1 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Johnston v. City of Galva

Most-quoted passages

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  1. “Where the right of recovery exists, the defendant cannot escape liability because the damages are difficult of exact ascertainment.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage

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