Holmes v. Lee’s Empirical Analysis
1945
Citation profile
6 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern Railway Co. v. Rogers · Safeway Stores, Inc. v. Ingram · Missouri Pacific Transportation Co. v. Simon · Interurban Railway Co. v. Trainer · Missouri Pacific Railroad v. Beard
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Instructions — Omission of Essential Element of Defense. — Where an instruction directs the jury to find for plaintiffs if stated conditions concur, but fails to say that contributory negligence is a defensé, (as to which there was appropriate proof) it is inherently wrong and cannot be cured by correct instructions separately given. ’ ’”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Brascomb v. State · Davis v. Self
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.