235 Mo. App. 1245 - Saunders v. Prue’s Empirical Analysis
1941
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently September 1977 · most notably 147 W. Va. 352 - Payne v. Kinder (1962), Dinger v. Burnham (1950)
24 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 Bushman v. Barlow · Cech v. Mallinckrodt Chemical Co. · Davis v. Shaw · Van Raalte v. Graff · Parker v. Nelson Grain and Milling 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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It seems apparent to us that it was necessary for plaintiff to prove three things in order to hold the defendant, DeWitt Chevrolet Company, liable in this case: (1) That Prue was not sufficiently experienced to drive the automobile in question; (2) that the DeWitt Chevrolet Company knew or should have known of his lack of qualification in this respect; (3) that his inexperience contributed to the collision as one of the proximate causes.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““ * * * But, whatever, may have been the condition of his eyesight and his hearing, at the time of the collision, there is no evidence that the agents of the DeWitt Chevrolet Company were aware of any defect therein. There is no evidence that the agents of the DeWitt Chevrolet Company knew Prue’s age. * * * ” (Emphasis this Court’s.)”
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.