Allsman v. Oklahoma City’s Empirical Analysis
1908
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently November 1993
14 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 Metropolitan Board of Excise v. . Barrie · Constitutional Prohibitory Amendment · San Francisco Gas Co. v. City of San Francisco · Martel v. City of East St. Louis · Wolfe v. Marshal
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is true that, at common law, assump-sit would not lie except upon a parol or simple contract, but we think the modern rule well settled, and more in keeping with the spirit of the law, and that the action will lie whenever one has' the money of another whicfi he, in equity and .good conscience, has no right to retain.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Thurlwell v. Rabbit““The controlling question here is: Can money be recovered back when the object for which it is paid is frustrated, not by accident nor by the act of the- party paying it. but by the act of the party to whom it is paid?””
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.