Gilmore v. Cohen

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• explaining that in lost profits cases, there is a “requirement that the plaintiff’s evidence 5 || provide some basis for estimating his loss.”
• explaining that “[t]he burden was on the plaintiffs to show the amount of their [lost profit] damages with reasonable certainty”
• requiring a plaintiff provide a “reasonable basis” for computing damages with such precision as is possible
• recognizing in a breach of contract ease that “the plaintiff in every case should supply some reasonable basis for computing the amount of damage and must do so with such precision as, from the nature of his claim and the available evidence, is possible” (citations omitted)
• stating a plaintiff “should supply some reasonable basis for computing the amount of damage and must do so with such precision as, from the nature of his claim and the available evidence, is possible”
• “[T]here must be a reasonable basis in the evidence for the trier of fact to fix compensation when a dollar loss is claimed.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).