Pipes v. Sevier’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently March 2017
11 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 239 Mo. App. 859 - Bussen v. Del Commune · State Ex Rel. Great American Insurance Co. v. Smith · Canty v. Halpin · Land Clearance for Redevelopment Authority v. Zitko · State Ex Rel. Willman v. Sloan
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The respondents ... rely, as the trial court did, upon the effect of the delivery of the fully executed deed dated October 5, 196[0], to the Wayne County Bank. The bank was to deliver this deed to the Missouri Highway Department upon payment of the purchase price. The purchase money was paid; the deed delivered and the respondents contend that the trial court properly held that the date of the concluded transaction related back to the date of the deed and its delivery to the bank.... The court invoked the rule that upon final delivery by a depository of a deed deposited in escrow the instrument will be treated as relating back to, and taking effect at the time of the original deposit in escrow. This shall apply even though one of the parties to the deed dies before the second delivery. This relation back doctrine has wide and general acceptance. Its roots are ancient[,] [dating] as far back as the Sixteenth Century....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“"The following persons shall be incompetent to testify: [[Image here]] (3) An attorney, concerning any communication made to him by his client in that relation, or his advice thereon, without the consent of such client.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Smith“Since equity retains jurisdiction of a cause to give full relief once its power attaches, a right to a trial by jury does not accrue merely because an incident of that relief is the adjudgment of money damages.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Stephens v. Brekke
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.