210 Mo. App. 293 - Townsend v. Roof’s Empirical Analysis
1922
Citation profile
2
cited by 2 later decisions
2
states following
January 1973
most recently cited
2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Slaughter v. Davenport · Clark v. Cable · Rainey v. Smizer · Henry v. Mount Pleasant Township of Bates County · Ryan v. Riddle
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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A joint contract is one by which two or more promisors are jointly bound to fulfill its obligations and either of whom may be charged with the entire liability under the contract, or such contract may be one by which two or more obligors are given a joint right.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““All contracts which, by the common law, are joint only, shall be construed to be joint and several.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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