Matteson v. Ackerson’s Empirical Analysis
1937
Citation profile
3
cited by 3 later decisions
2
states following
April 1944
most recently cited
3 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Klineline v. Head · Mihelich v. Butte Electric Railway Co. · Dickason v. Dickason · State v. Quantic · State ex rel. Rankin v. Martin
Most-quoted passages
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Thus it is plain here that a replication, in the face of the allegations already made, could have served no practical purpose. There was nothing new in the answer which was not already in issue. It would have been a mere idle act, the neces sity of which had been obviated by the pleading of the circumstances from which the new promise was implied, and upon which his recovery was predicated.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Newton v. Knox
How this case has been treated — in progress
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