Williams v. Pryor’s Empirical Analysis
1917
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently December 1976 · most notably Jablonowski v. Modern Cap Manufacturing Co. (1925), 241 Mo. App. 879 - Spears v. SGHANTZ (1952)
2 federal appellate · 35 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 Tinkle v. St. Louis & San Francisco Railroad · Brady v. Kansas City, St. Louis & Chicago Railroad · Fish v. Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway Co. · Huston v. Quincy, Omaha & Kansas City Railroad
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“if the defects are open and glaring, and so open and glaring that a reasonably prudent person would not undertake to use them in the work being done.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“It is the unbroken rule in Missouri, that the servant never assumes the risk where such risk grows out of the negligence of the master.”
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.