State Ex Rel. Bitting v. Adolf’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently February 2019
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 Gustafson v. Benda · Missouri Pacific Railroad v. Whitehead & Kales Co. · Schumacher v. Leslie · Schumacher v. Leslie · Wichita County Lumber Co. v. Maer
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.
“Our holding is consistent with the general line of cases which treat of the interrelation of the venue statutes and the rules governing joinder of claims. (Rule 52.05(a), based on § 507.040, RSMo 1978 ). State ex rel. Farmers Insurance Co., Inc. v. Murphy, 518 S.W.2d 655 (Mo. banc 1975), gave general sanction to venue in the county of residence of any properly joined defendant. State ex rel. Garrison Wagner Co. v. Schaaf, 528 S.W.2d 438 (Mo. banc 1975), held that a third-party claim could be maintained in a lawsuit without regard to the residence of the third-party defendant. There, as here, the element of convenience was strong. If the claims now before us had been separately filed, the case might indeed be converted into a lawsuit indistinguishable from this one by means of third-party proceedings. Our conclusion accords with prior cases and with the letter and spirit of the governing statutes and rules.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“We now hold that when there are several defendants, some individuals and some corporations, and when they may share liability for all or part of the plaintiffs claim against them, suit may be brought in the county in which any defendant resides pursuant to § 508.010, RSMo 1978. The presence of an additional claim against one defendant, in which others are not involved, should not stand in the way.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“consistent with the general line of cases which treat of the interrelation of the venue statutes and the rules governing joinder of claims”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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