208 Mo. App. 113 - Ruenzi, Admr. v. Payne’s Empirical Analysis
1921
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently April 1955
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 Stotler ex rel. Stotler v. Chicago & Alton Railway Co. · Burge v. Wabash Railroad · Kellny v. Missouri Pacific Railway Co. · Gratiot v. Missouri Pacific Railway Co. · Weller v. Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway Co.
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It has been several times held by the Supreme Court, and it is well settled not only in decisions of that but of the other courts of our State, that when one knowingly approaches a railroad crossing he must look both ways, and, if he does not, it is negligence that will defeat a recovery.”
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.