22 Ala. App. 402 - Spann v. Radford’s Empirical Analysis
1928
Citation profile
2
cited by 2 later decisions
1
states following
July 2012
most recently cited
2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Thompson v. New South Coal Co. · Thomas v. Smoot
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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In a suit upon a contract for damages for its breach, there can be no recovery except in pursuance of its terms. Thomas v. Smoot, 2 Ala.App. 407 , 56 So. 1 [ (1911) ]. Where none of the terms of the contract sued upon are given, manifestly no recovery could be had.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Bradley v. Bauldree
How this case has been treated — in progress
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