Wright v. Wright’s Empirical Analysis
1822
Citation profile
3
cited by 3 later decisions
2
states following
January 1993
most recently cited
2 state decisions
Most-quoted passages
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“We admit, that if the original plan for the work had been so entirely abandoned, that the contract could not be traced and applied to any particular part of the work performed, ... the plaintiff ... would be permitted to recover for the whole work done, according to measure and value, as if no contract had ever been made; but in the present case, the original contract is not proved to have been wholly abandoned.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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