Kegel v. McCormack’s Empirical Analysis
1937
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently May 1999
5 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 Metcalf v. Williams · Megowan v. . Peterson · Thorp v. Mindeman · New Georgia National Bank of Albany, Georgia v. J. & G. Lippmann · Germania National Bank of Milwaukee v. Mariner
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Sec. 116.22, Stats. “Trade or assumed names. No person is liable on the instrument whose signature does not appear thereon, except as herein otherwise expressly provided. . . Sec. 116.24, Stats. “Agent not liable. Where the instrument contains or a person adds to his signature words indicating that he signs for or on behalf of a principal, or in a representative capacity, he is not liable on the instrument if he was duly authorized; but the mere addition of words describing him as an agent, or as filling a representative character, without disclosing his principal, does not exempt him from personal liability.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[t]here seems to be no doubt that a negotiable instrument may be reformed as between the original parties as may any other simple contract and that reformation will be decreed upon the same grounds as reformation is decreed in other cases.”
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.