Priest v. Oehler’s Empirical Analysis
1931
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 45 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 57 later decisions — most recently January 2017 · most notably Fair Mercantile Co. v. Union-May-Stern Co. (1949), State Ex Rel. Place v. Bland (1944)
4 federal appellate · 45 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 Hanson v. Neal · Green v. Cole · Bandman v. . Finn · Goodrich v. Stanley · Clark v. Cable
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 57 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Under this head appellants invoke the rule that one joint obligee, without the concurrence of his co-obligees, cannot maintain an action upon a joint contract. [Clark v. Cable, 21 Mo. 223 .] The rule is applicable only in actions at law. In addition to the fact that *Page 1016 this is a suit in equity, the obligation of the contract running to plaintiff and defendants Cunliff and Smith is as to them several as well as joint; each has a several right to have it enforced. The point made as to nonjoinder of parties plaintiff is without substance.”
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.