Downing v. Dixon’s Empirical Analysis
1958
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently July 1993 · most notably Kennedy v. Dixon (1969), Page v. Hamilton (1959)
28 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 State Ex Rel. Kansas City Southern Railway Co. v. Shain · Wilson v. Toliver · Frandeka v. St. Louis Public Service Co. · Nelms Ex Rel. Nelms v. Bright · Anderson Ex Rel. Anderson v. Prugh
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It has been stated many times that the violation of a statute or ordinance is negligence per se (Rice v. Allen, Mo., 309 S.W.2d 629, 631 , and cases there cited; Harper & James, Torts, Vol. 2, § 17.6, p. 997; Prosser on Torts, 2nd Ed., § 34, p. 161); but it is also well settled that the violation must be shown to have been the proximate cause of the injury. Lochmoeller v. Kiel, Mo.App., 137 S.W. 2d 625 ; Smyth v. Hertz Driv-Ur-Self Stations, Mo.App., 93 S.W.2d 56 ; Larsen v. Webb, 332 Mo. 370 , 58 S.W.2d 967, 970 ; 90 A.L.R. 67”.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Henry v. Baker
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.