41 Wash. 2d 895 - Dunseath v. Hallauer’s Empirical Analysis
1953
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently April 1998
3 federal appellate · 13 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Morris v. . Whitcher · Davis v. Lee · Coolidge & Sickler, Inc. v. Regn · Park v. Northport Smelting & Refining Co. · 18 N.J. Super. 206 - Gallicchio v. Jarzla
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If the fact of damage is established, the rule applicable to the ascertainment of the amount of damages takes effect. That rule is stated in Dun-seath v. Hallauer, 41 Wash.2d 895 , 902, 253 P.2d 408 , 413 (1953) : “ ‘The difficulty of ascertainment of the amount of damage is not to be confused with the right of recovery, [citation omitted] The rule is that, if the plaintiff has produced the best evidence available and if it is sufficient to afford a reasonable basis for estimating his loss, he is not to be denied a substantial recovery because the amount of the damage is incapable of exact ascertainment.’ ””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage
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