224 Mo. App. 1050 - Stewart v. Jeffries’s Empirical Analysis
1931
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently January 1997
16 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. Title Guaranty & Trust Co. v. Broaddus · Threadgill v. United Railways Co. · 203 Mo. App. 373 - Davis v. United Railways 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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“This requirement of the exercise of only ordinary care (due care) on the part of defendant to see plaintiff and avoid injuring him is at distinct variance with plaintiff's given instructions wherein one of the grounds of negligence submitted was that `said defendant negligently drove said motor vehicle at said time without keeping any watch or lookout for persons upon said highway and crossing the same, including the plaintiff,' and wherein the word `negligently' as used in that instruction was defined as meaning `the failure to exercise the highest degree of care' or `such care as would ordinarily be used *Page 504 by a very careful and prudent person under like or similar circumstances.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hamre v. Conger““ * * * and it would be too narrow a construction to attempt to say that while a motor vehicle was moving it was being operated, but the moment it stopped by reason of lack of gasoline, or by reason of defective spark plug, or a broken gas line, or from any other cause, it was not in operation, and that the person who had been driving and had gotten out from under the steering wheel, and was attempting to find the trouble was not its operator, and was not then engaged in operating it. * * * ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The court instructs the jury, that if you shall find and believe from the evidence that the plaintiff, when he stoppd his automobile on the highway, placed the same with the right side thereof as near the right side of the highway as was practicable, and otherwise exercised ordinary care then you cannot find plaintiff guilty of contributory negligence”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hamre v. Conger
How this case has been treated — in progress
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