Thornton v. Rowlett’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
2
cited by 2 later decisions
1
states following
December 1990
most recently cited
2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Fix v. Fix Material Co., Inc. · Sebree v. Rosen · May v. May · Weltscheff v. Medical Center of Independence, Inc. · State Ex Rel. Rowlett v. Wilson
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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A true judicial admission is an admission made in court or preparatory to trial by a party or his attorney, which concedes for the purposes of that particular trial the truth of some alleged fact so that one party need offer no evidence to prove it, and the other party ordinarily is not allowed to disprove it. It removes the proposition in question from the field of disputed issues in the particular case wherein it is made. It is a substitute for evidence in the sense that it does away with the need for evidence on that subject in that cause. Thornton v. Rowlett, 613 S.W.2d 177, 179 (Mo.App.1981); May v. May, 294 S.W.2d 627, 634 (Mo.App.1956).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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