Greer v. Kooiker

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• explaining that statute of frauds, which states that certain contracts “shall be void,” actually renders them voidable (citing MinmStat. § 513.05 (2014))
• explaining that statute of frauds, which states that certain contracts “shall be void,” actually renders them voidable (citing Minn. Stat. § 513.05 (2014))
• upholding district court finding of oral contract because finding was not clearly erroneous
• listing only the signature of the vendor as an essential element of a contract for the sale of land in dictum but affirming a finding that a memorandum signed by both parties to a real estate transaction was a binding contract
• “a party to a contract on which others have relied cannot avoid the duties of the document by showing he did not know its contents.”
• “parties may assent to a contract one of the terms of which is that a later, more formal evidence of it may be executed”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

36 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Cherne Industrial, Inc. v. Grounds & Associates, Inc.
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1979-04-06· cited 201×
• Togstad v. Vesely, Otto, Miller & Keefe
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1980-04-11· cited 103×
• Rosenberg v. Heritage Renovations, LLC
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 2004-07-29· cited 49×
• Bouten v. Richard Miller Homes, Inc.
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1982-07-16· cited 45×
• Rural American Bank of Greenwald v. Herickhoff
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1992-06-05· cited 33×
• Gartner v. Eikill
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1982-05-21· cited 31×
• Burgess v. Arita
  Hawaii Intermediate Court of Appeals· 1985-06-10· cited 29×
• Bergstrom v. Sears, Roebuck and Co.
  D. Minnesota· 1982-02-25· cited 29×
• American City Bank of Tullahoma v. Western Auto Supply Co.
  Court of Appeals of Tennessee· 1981-09-18· cited 24×
• Lonesome Dove Petroleum, Inc. v. Nelson
  North Dakota Supreme Court· 2000-05-25· cited 21×
• Holstad v. Southwestern Porcelain, Inc.
  Court of Appeals of Minnesota· 1988-03-22· cited 17×
• Powell v. MVE Holdings, Inc.
  Court of Appeals of Minnesota· 2001-05-15· cited 16×
• Amos Graves v. Michael Wayman, First Minnesota Bank
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 2015-02-25· cited 12×
• Krogness v. Best Buy Co., Inc.
  Court of Appeals of Minnesota· 1994-11-29· cited 10×
• Aesoph v. Golden
  Court of Appeals of Minnesota· 1985-05-14· cited 9×
• Handy v. Garmaker
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1982-08-31· cited 7×
• Malevich v. Hakola
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1979-04-13· cited 7×
• Olson v. Ronhovde
  Court of Appeals of Minnesota· 1989-10-17· cited 7×
• SN4, LLC v. Anchor Bank, FSB
  Court of Appeals of Minnesota· 2014-06-02· cited 7×
• Schwinn v. Griffith
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1981-03-06· cited 6×

Cites

21 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Henningsen v. Bloomfield Motors, Inc.
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 1960-05-09· cited 786×
• In Re Trust Known as Great Northern Iron Ore Properties
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1976-04-23· cited 97×
• Balafas v. Angelos
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1972-04-14· cited 70×
• Chicago, St. P., M. & O. Ry. Co. v. Belliwith
  Eighth Circuit· 1897-11-15· cited 69×
• Olson v. Penkert
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1958-05-09· cited 35×
• Conlan v. Grace
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1886-12-22· cited 33×
• Radke v. Brenon
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1965-04-15· cited 30×
• Hamlin v. Schulte
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1886-03-01· cited 27×
• Doyle v. Wohlrabe
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1954-10-29· cited 26×
• Scheerschmidt v. Smith
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1898-11-14· cited 25×
• Goss v. Broom
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1884-01-31· cited 21×
• Engel v. Mahlen
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1922-07-14· cited 19×
• Huntley v. Smith
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1922-10-27· cited 18×
• Matteson v. United States & Canada Land Co.
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1908-02-21· cited 16×
• Paulink v. American Express Co.
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1928-11-27· cited 15×
• Swallow v. Strong
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1901-05-03· cited 15×
• Miracle Construction Co. v. Miller
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1958-01-24· cited 14×
• Quimby v. Shearer
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1894-02-17· cited 12×
• Bengtson v. Village of Marine on St. Croix
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1976-10-15· cited 9×
• Lamoreaux v. Weisman
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1917-02-23· cited 9×