Robinson v. . Threadgill’s Empirical Analysis

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1 state decisions

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1. “Where the law, from a given statement of facts, raises an obligation to do a particular act, and there is a breach of that obligation, and a consequential damage, an action on the case founded on the tort is proper,”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. J. M. Pace Mule Co. v. Seaboard Air Line Railway Co.