Allison v. Dilsaver’s Empirical Analysis
1965
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently November 2018
15 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 Shoemake v. Davis · Shafer v. Southwestern Bell Telephone Company · State Ex Rel. McCrory v. Bland. · Kovacik v. Reed · Gales v. Weldon
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A joint venture is defined as an association of persons to carry out a single business enterprise for profit, for which purpose they combine their property, money, effects, skill and knowledge . . . it is generally recognized that a joint venture may be implied without any showing of a specific or formal agreement. Allison v. Dilsaver, 387 S.W.2d 206, 210 (Mo. App.1965).”
2 later decisions 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.