Klessig v. Lea’s Empirical Analysis
1922
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently December 1985
16 state decisions
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 Thysell v. McDonald · Daily v. St. Anthony Falls Water Power Co. · Beneke v. Estate of Beneke · Knight v. Martin · Dickson v. Miller
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We are of the opinion that the making of this deed and what occurred in connection therewith is altogether of too uncertain and ambiguous a character to be allowed as a fact or circumstance from which a jury might infer an implied agreement to pay appellant for services rendered long prior thereto. What was said in Beneke v. Estate of Beneke, 119 Minn. 441 , 138 N. W. 689 , Ann. Cas. 1914B, 381, about evidence of such .uncertain bearing holds true here.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.