Dyer v. Harper’s Empirical Analysis
1934
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently June 1972
10 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 Liese v. Meyer · Greene County v. Lydy · Kochtitzky v. St. Louis, Memphis & Southeastern Railroad · Lee v. W. E. Fuetterer Battery & Supplies Co. · Joyce v. Growney
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * Such discretion of the trial court is rarely interfered with by the appellate courts of this state, and then only when the trial court has palpably abused its discretion in permitting or refusing the amendment to be made. Allen v. Ranson, 44 Mo. 263, 267 , 100 Am.Dec. 282; Joyce v. Growney, 154 Mo. 253, 263 , 55 S.W. 466 ; Clark v. St. Louis Transfer Railway Co., 127 Mo. 255, 269 , 30 S.W. 121 ; Little River Drainage District v. St. Louis, M. & S. E. Railroad Co., 236 Mo. 94, 113 , 139 S.W. 330 ; Lee v. W. E. Fuetterer Battery & Supplies Co., 323 Mo. 1204 , 23 S.W.2d 45, 57 .” Dyer v. Harper, 336 Mo. 52 , 77 S.W.2d 106, 109 .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“it is settled in this state that a trial court has the discretion to permit amendments to pleadings to be made out of time before final judgment and its discretion in allowing or denying amendments will not be interfered with by the appellate courts unless the trial court has palpably abused its discretion.”
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.