Smith v. Hudson’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 295 So. 2d 914 - Jones v. City of Lake Charles · 440 So. 2d 945 - Fullerton v. Scarecrow Club, Inc. · Versai Management, Inc. v. Monticello Forest Products Corp. · 382 So. 2d 238 - Hobbs v. Central Equip. Rentals, Inc. · 568 F. Supp. 371 - Cabot, Cabot & Forbes Co. v. Brian, Simon, Peragine, Smith & Redfearn
Most-quoted passages
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“Quasi contracts are the lawful and purely voluntary act of a man, from which there results any obligation whatever to a third person, and sometimes a reciprocal obligation between the parties.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Taylor v. Taylor
How this case has been treated — in progress
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