Munn v. Garrett’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
19
cited by 19 later decisions
1
states following
April 1997
most recently cited
18 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Castorina v. Herrmann · Magee v. Mercantile-Commerce Bank & Trust Co. · Delaney v. Gibson · Loveless v. Locke Distributing Company · Byrd v. Brown
Most-quoted passages
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“We should overlook the omission of mere matters of form and hold that the judgment is sufficient to support an appeal when it appears to have been intended by some competent tribunal as the determination of the rights of the parties to an action, and shows in intelligible language the relief granted.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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