Dozier v. Matson’s Empirical Analysis
1887
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently January 2007
1 federal appellate · 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 Neale v. Neales · Freeman v. . Freeman · Kurtz v. Hibner · Halsa v. Halsa · Hardesty v. Richardson
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.
““It is well settled that where a party has been placed'in possession of a tract of land, and on the faith of an oral gift of the same to him, has made valuable and lasting improvements thereon, this is a sufficient basis upon which the donee may compel a conveyance to him of such land. When he does this, it constitutes a valuable consideration, and he stands before a court of equity in the attitude of a purchaser and with equal rights and remedies; the donee’s status in such ease falling within the domain of the doctrine of part performance. ” [Dozier v. Matson, 94 Mo. 328, 332 ; also Thierry v. Thierry, 298 Mo. 25 .]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Keltner v. Threlkel
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.