State Ex Rel. Bier v. Bigger’s Empirical Analysis
1944
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 51 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 65 later decisions — most recently August 2016 · most notably Laughlin v. Forgrave (1968), State Ex Rel. Fire Dist. of Lemay v. Smith (1945)
4 federal appellate · 51 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 Wentz v. Price Candy Co. · Johnson v. United Railways Co. · Foster v. Petree · Stowe v. Stowe · Wyers v. Arnold
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 65 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“This court has uniformly held that where a statute of limitations is a special one, not included in the general chapter on limitations, the running thereof cannot be tolled because of fraud, concealment or any other reason not provided in the statute itself.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“‘ ‘ There we held that the limitation in this section on the time for probating a will is reasonable, basing our conclusion on the premise that there is no natural or inherent right to dispose of property by will; that the state has the power to prohibit such disposition entirely and, of course, has the lesser power to prescribe the time for probating a will. We said: ‘One of the objects of administration is an orderly settlement of the deceased’s affairs and the protection and lawful distribution of his property within a reasonable length of time. ’ The Supreme Court of the United States refused certiorari to review our decision in Wyers v. Arnold.” ( 347 Mo. 413 , 147 S.W.2d 644 , 134 A.L.R. 876 ).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“If any person, by absconding or concealing himself, or by any other improper act, prevent the commencement of an action, such action may be commenced within the time herein limited, after the commencement of such action shall have ceased to be so prevented.”
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.