Koerner v. Wilkinson’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 district · 9 state decisions

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.

1. ““No action shall be maintained whereby to charge any person upon any debt contracted during infancy, unless such person shall have ratified the same by some other act than a verbal promise to pay the same; and the following acts on the part of such person after he becomes of full age shall constitute a ratification of such debt: first, an acknowledgment of, or promise to pay such debt, made in writing; second, a partial payment upon such debt; . . .””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 231 Mo. App. 1005 - Fenn v. Hart Dairy Co.

2. ““This is a radical change in the condition of the law, and the common law doctrine must yield wherever it conflicts with the statute.” [Koerner v. Wilkinson, supra.]”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 231 Mo. App. 1005 - Fenn v. Hart Dairy Co.

3. ““We think the sense to be attributed to the word, as used in the statute, should be its most common one, to wit, to alienate as by sale, gift, or devise.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Popp v. Munger