218 Mo. App. 155 - State Ex Rel. Wagner v. Fields’s Empirical Analysis
1924
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently September 1980
19 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 State ex rel. McEntee v. Bright · Cox v. Hannibal & St. Joseph Railroad · State ex rel. Porter v. Hudson · State ex rel. Sheffel v. McCammon · State ex rel. Wheeler v. Adams
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It will not do to say that this feature cannot be considered because no mention thereof is made in respondents’ return. For the court is not bound to take the case as presented, but may consider respondents’ rights, the interest of third persons, and other matters in determining whether the writ shall go.”
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.