Ahrens v. Dodd’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently April 2015
2 federal appellate · 10 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 Jones v. Linder · Ray v. Wooster · State Ex Rel. Saxton v. Moore · Bakewell v. Missouri State Employees' Retirement System · Vess Beverages, Inc. v. Paddington Corp.
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“... [S]trictly speaking, the forms of an action have been abolished. Rule 42.01.” Service Construction Company v. Nichols, 378 S.W.2d 283, 288 [4] (Mo.App.1964). "[W]hen specific facts are set out in a pleading, the pleader need not state the legal conclusions to be drawn from such facts. In other words, it is sufficient if the pleader states the facts and leaves the court to find the law.’ Folger v. Lowery, 210 S.W.2d 1011 , 1015 (Mo.App.1948).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Boyd v. Lane“theory, the acts of part performance must have been done in reliance on the contract, and the positions of the parties must have been so materially changed that it would have been grossly unjust to allow the other party to rely on the statute of frauds. Id. Whatever may be the correctness of the rules that Defendant urges about the order and quantum of proof needed to obtain specific performance of an oral contract under the”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.