Abbott v. Taz Express’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
6 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Rutherford v. Owens-Illinois, Inc. · 4 Cal. App. 3d 68 - Randles v. Lowry · Burke v. City & County of San Francisco · 25 Cal. App. 4th 502 - San Diego County Department of Social Services v. McKeown · 195 Cal. App. 3d 1 - People v. Dawkins
Most-quoted passages
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“[w]e refuse to transform the jury's inherently subjective task of calculating damages into a mechanical exercise of voting to accept or reject the testimony of any witness in toto.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“between black and white are various shades of gray, and all of the colors of the rainbow as well,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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