West v. Shawmut Design & Construction’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
2
cited by 2 later decisions
1
states following
October 2021
most recently cited
2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Eichel v. New York Central Railroad · 4 Cal. 3d 725 - Hrnjak v. Graymar, Inc. · Corsetti v. Stone Co. · Goldstein v. Gontarz · Scannell v. Ed. Ferreirinha & Irmao, Lda.
Most-quoted passages
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“jurors might be led by the irrelevancy to consider plaintiffs' claims unimportant or trivial or to refuse plaintiffs' verdicts or reduce them, believing that otherwise there would be unjust double recovery.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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