221 Mo. App. 550 - Smith v. Simpson’s Empirical Analysis
1926
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently February 1980 · most notably Stallman v. Robinson (1953), 112 Ind. App. 347 - Fowler, Admx. v. Norways Sanatorium (1942)
3 federal appellate · 26 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 Phillips v. St. Louis & San Francisco Railroad · Cain v. Garvey · Brennan v. City of St. Louis · 204 Mo. App. 626 - Davis v. Springfield Hospital · Sotebier v. St. Louis Transit 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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ Tt is not disputed that all the authorities hold that private hospitals owe to their patients such ordinary care and attention as the mental and physical condition of such patients reasonably requires. The law demands reasonable care, such care as a reasonable man would take under the circumstances existing, but no man is required to take measures against a danger which the circumstances as known to him do not suggest as likely to happen.’ ””
2 later decisions 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.