Cummings v. Lowe’s Empirical Analysis
1932
Citation profile
1
cited by 1 later decisions
1
states following
January 1956
most recently cited
1 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Webb v. Reynolds · Olston v. Oregon Water Power & Ry. Co. · Wickersham v. Johnston · Whitehurst v. Mason · Weider v. Osborn
Most-quoted passages
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““We cannot take judicial notice of the laws of a sister state. In the absence of pleading and proof as to what the laws are in a sister state, we must assume that the same law prevails in the foreign state that prevails here.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Newell v. Newell
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