Schaefer v. Accardi’s Empirical Analysis
1958
Citation profile
47 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently May 2013 · most notably Parsons Construction Co. v. Missouri Public Service Co. (1968), Stanziale v. Musick (1963)
47 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 Cluck v. Abe · Knight Ex Rel. Knight v. Richey · Girratono v. Kansas City Public Service Co. · Annin v. Jackson · Eickmann v. St. Louis Public Service 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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ⅜ * * The defendant can submit what is known as a converse instruction, and in doing so can ‘submit either the exact converse of plaintiff’s verdict-directing instruction, Janssens v. Thompson, 360 Mo. 351 , 228 S.W.2d 743 , or the exact converse of any essential element of such instruction. Reger v. Nowotny, Mo.Sup., 226 S.W.2d 596 ; McCarty v. Milgram Food Stores, Inc., Mo.Sup., 252 S.W.2d 343 ; Oshins v. St. Louis Public Service Co., Mo.Sup., 254 S.W.2d 630 . When either is done the result is what is referred to as a “true converse instruction,” and such an instruction does not require affirmative testimony in support of it. Kimbrough v. Chervitz, 353 Mo. 1154 , 186 S.W.2d 461, 464 .’ Liebow v. Jones Store Company, Mo.Sup., 303 S.W.2d 660, 662 [5]. * * *””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Sanders v. Nixon“However, defendant did give a reason for the collision; that his automobile slid because of the wet street and freezing temperature. Of course, the jury might have found that this reason constituted no justification, but the mere proof or admission that an automobile skidded or slid mto collision with another does not necessarily establish negligence....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““The Court instructs the jury that if you find and believe from the credible evidence that the plaintiff Idolos Sanders was not injured on the occasion in question the plaintiff cannqf recover herein and your verdict must be for the defendant Charlotte Nixon.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Sanders v. Nixon
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.