58 Wash. 2d 243 - Baldwin v. Alberti’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

15 state decisions

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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “(i) the reasonable cost of construction and completion in accordance with the contract, if this is possible and does not involve unreasonable economic waste; or (ii) the difference between the value that the product contracted for would have had and the value of the performance that has been received by the plaintiff, if construction and completion in accordance with the contract would involve unreasonable economic waste.”

   4 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 102 Wash. 2d 30 - Eastlake Construction Co. v. Hess · Alpine Industries, Inc. v. Gohl

2. “In the instant case, the evidence discloses, and the trial court found, that the defects could be "adequately and reasonably" repaired. In other words, the court found that the defendant substantially performed the contract and that the defects could be repaired without unreasonable economic waste; hence, our disposition of this case is controlled by the rationale of 1 Restatement, Contracts, § 346 (a)(i) . . .”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 102 Wash. 2d 30 - Eastlake Construction Co. v. Hess

3. “"... `damages are given as a compensation or satisfaction to the plaintiff for an injury actually received by him from the defendant. They should be precisely commensurate with the injury, neither more nore less; and this whether it be to his person or estate' ..."”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 89 Wash. 2d 349 - State v. Herrmann