Hern v. Carpenter’s Empirical Analysis
1958
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently August 1997
6 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 Laclede Gas Co. v. City of St. Louis · Viquesney v. City of Kansas · Kleban v. Morris · American Bridge Co. v. Smith · Kansas City v. Travelers Insurance Company
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“should not force a conclusion that the legislative intent was other than a reasonable construction of language used in the circumstances shows it to be. American Bridge Co. v. Smith, 352 Mo. 616 , 179 S.W.2d 12, 16 , [6, 7], 157 A.L.R. 798 . The parties agree that the basic construction rule is to discover the lawmakers' intention, and, if possible, effectuate that intention, Laclede Gas Co. v. City of St. Louis, 363 Mo. 842 , 253 S.W.2d 832, 835 , [2-4], and thereby attain the object and purpose of the statute, Kansas City v. Travelers Ins. Co., Mo.App., 284 S.W.2d 874, 878 [5-7].”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Cascio v. Beam
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.