237 Mo. App. 861 - Fricke v. Belz’s Empirical Analysis
1944
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently March 1984
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 17 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 Sparks v. Dispatch Transfer Co. · Von Schleinitz v. North Hotel Co. · Myers v. Chesley · East St. Louis Ice & Cold Storage Co. v. Herman H. · Hoxsey Hotel Co. v. Farm & Home Savings & Loan Ass'n
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“On the note in suit there appear two names without any additional word to the second signature to indicate in what capacity it was signed. One may sign a note in different capacities; he may sign as a comaker, as a surety, as an authorized agent, or as an attesting witness to another signature. If the note on its face clearly shows in what capacity it was signed, then there is no ambiguity which is subject to explanation by parol evidence. If this note had not contained the signature `J. H. Belz Provision Company' but only the signature `Henry Belz' then under all the authorities Belz would not be permitted to offer parol evidence that he had signed it in any other capacity than as an individual, and this for the reason that in such case there would be no ambiguity. But an inspection of this note would at once arouse in the mind of any one the question of whether Henry Belz signed as a comaker, or whether he signed in attestation of the signature, `J. H. Belz Provision Company'.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“and immediately beneath there was inscribed the name”
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.