78 Misc. 2d 429 - Fink v. Friedman’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
2 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently April 2009
2 federal appellate ·
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Callanan v. . K., A.C. L.C.R.R. Co. · John F. Trainor Co. v. G. Amsinck & Co. · Honaker v. Ralph Pool's Albuquerque Auto Sales, Inc. · Heyman v. . Biggs · Buffalo, Lockport & Rochester Railway Co. v. Hoyer
Most-quoted passages
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“breach has been defined as one which would justify the other party to suspend his own performance, 12 Williston on Contracts, § 1469 at 186 (3rd ed. 1970), or a breach which is so substantial as to defeat the purpose of the entire transaction. Fink, supra. The question may be posed: Would the innocent party have agreed to enter the contract without the inclusion of the disputed clause? 40 Darin claims that CUC breached its promise to use its”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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