Reimann Const. Co. v. Upton’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

25 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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““■* * * it is well settled in this state that a contractor may recover the value of work done by him even though it be unfinished or defective. In the case, of Peterson v. Peralta, 3 La.App. 516 , with Judge Claiborne as the organ of this court, we said: “ ‘A contractor may recover the value of the work which has enured to the benefit of the owner, although the work be defective or unfinished, if a price has been agreed upon; the remedy of the owner is a reduction thereof to an amount necessary to perfect or complete the work according to contract.’ (Italics ours.) “See, also, article 2769, R.C.C.; Cairy v. Randolph, 6 La.Ann. 202 ; Babst v. Peritz & Yochim, Orleans No. 7548, see Louisiana and Southern Digest; Berns & Bros. v. Reiss, 12 Orleans App. 126; Davidson v. McGrath, 5 La.App. 125 , and Reicke v. Bland, 7 La.App. 280 .””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Cary v. Brown