Bruns v. Braun’s Empirical Analysis

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18 state decisions

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

1. ““The Kansas City Court of Appeals in case of Page v. Bettes, 17 Mo. App. 375 , says: ‘When work, distinct in its nature is performed at different times, the law supposes it to have been performed under distinct engagements, as when the work at one time is for building, and at another time for repairing. So, when two distinct contracts are in fact made, as for different parts of the work, the work done under each contract must be considered as entire of itself. But when work, or material, is done, or furnished, all going to the same general purpose, as the building of a house or any of its parts, though such work be done'.or ordered at different times, yet if the several parts form an entire whole, or are so connected together, as to show that the parties had it in contemplation that the whole should form but one and not distinct matters of settlement, the whole account must be considered as a unit, or as being but a single contract.’ This is probably as succinct and correct a statement of the law as could be made. ’ ’”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 237 Mo. App. 535 - Arthur Morgan Trucking Co. v. Shartzer