Fuzzell v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
1956
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently July 2009
3 federal appellate · 21 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 Delay Ex Rel. Delay v. Ward · Williamson v. St. Louis Public Service Co. · Frandeka v. St. Louis Public Service Co. · Branscum v. Glaser · Howard v. Scarritt Estate 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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Contributory negligence, in order to defeat recovery, must be such negligence as contributed to cause the occurrence. Triplett v. Beeler, Mo.Sup., 268 S.W.2d 814 ; Rentfrow v. Thompson, 348 Mo. 970 , 156 S.W.2d 700 . As was said in Albert H. Hoppe, Inc. v. St. Louis Public Service Co., Mo. App., 227 S.W.2d 499 , 502, ‘This follows the earlier statement that “The rule as to the quantum of contributory negligence which is sufficient to prevent recovery is that it must be such as to enter into and form the direct, producing, and efficient cause of the casualty, and absent which the casualty would not have happened.” Howard v. Scarritt Estate Co., 267 Mo. 398 , 184 S.W. 1144 , 1145.’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Meitz v. Garrison
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.