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6 canonical passages across 4 cases, quoted by 56 opinions in total. These passages cluster together because the same opinions keep quoting them side by side: they state parts of one doctrine. The anchor passage is from Wilkinson v. Lee.

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1 Wilkinson v. Lee Anchor
mich · 2000
green “regardless of the preexisting condition, recovery is allowed if the trauma caused by the accident triggered symptoms from that condition.” 14
2 Weymers v. Khera
mich · 1997
green “to establish proximate cause, the plaintiff must prove the existence of both cause in fact and legal cause.” 13
3 Weymers v. Khera
mich · 1997
green “present substantial evidence from which a jury may conclude that more likely than not, but for the defendant's conduct, the plaintiff's injuries would not have occurred.” 12
4 Weymers v. Khera
mich · 1997
green “to establish legal cause, the plaintiff must show that it was foreseeable that the defendant's conduct may create a risk of harm to the victim, and . . . that the result of that conduct and intervening causes were foreseeable.” 9
5 Doe v. Henry Ford Health System
michctapp · 2014
green “the party asserting a breach of contract has the burden of proving its damages with reasonable certainty, and may recover only those damages that are the direct, natural, and proximate result of the breach.” 5
6 Wilson v. Alpena County Road Commission
michctapp · 2004
green “establishes a logical sequence of cause and effect, notwithstanding the existence of other plausible theories, although other plausible theories may also have evidentiary support.” 3

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