236 Mo. App. 1178 - Ross v. Wilson’s Empirical Analysis
1942
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently March 1967
14 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 Watts v. McCloud · Frank v. Wright · Shinn v. United Railways Co. · King v. City of St. Louis · Wolfe v. Kansas City
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * It is the law as declared in the above cases that a driver of a motor vehicle who first reaches an intersection does not have an absolute and unqualified right to proceed across the intersection under any and all circumstances and regardless of the conditions which may confront him. However, the instruction in question does not tell the jury that plaintiff and her driver had an unqualified right to proceed merely because plaintiff’s car reached the intersection first. As a predicate for finding that plaintiff’s car had the right to proceed across the intersection the instruction required the jury to find ‘that in entering and proceeding across said intersection Marion Ross and Irene Ross exercised such care as very prudent and careful persons would haye exercised under the same or similar, circumstances.’ * * * ””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Jameson v. Fox
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.