238 Mo. App. 78 - Ireland v. Shukert’s Empirical Analysis
1943
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently March 2004 · most notably Wilks v. Stone (1960), Don L. Tullis & Associates, Inc. v. Gover (1979)
22 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 Davis Watertown v. Richards · Rhodus v. Geatley · Kusnetsky v. Security Insurance · 230 Mo. App. 430 - Kelly-Springfield Tire Co. v. Hamilton · 231 Mo. App. 486 - Scottish Rite Temple Ass'n of Kansas City v. Lucksinger
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Our courts have repeatedly held that in order for forbearance by the creditor toward the principal to be a sufficient consideration, there must be an agreement on the part of the creditor that he will forbear. Mere forbearance or omission on the part of the creditor to exercise his legal rights without any agreement to that effect is not sufficient, because he may at any moment and at his own pleasure proceed. There must be promise for promise.””
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.