Smith ex rel. Smith v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1960
Citation profile
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cited by 1 later decisions
1
states following
August 2008
most recently cited
1 state decisions
Most-quoted passages
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“[W]hen an agent fails in any duty which he owes to a third party or the public generally, the principal is responsible for the failure.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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