Brown v. Thomas’s Empirical Analysis
1958
Citation profile
33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently May 2014 · most notably State v. Cannady (1983), La Plant v. EI Du Pont De Nemours and Company (1961)
33 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 Maybach v. Falstaff Brewing Corp. · Doherty Ex Rel. Doherty v. St. Louis Butter Co. · State v. Whitaker · Zichler v. St. Louis Public Service Co. · Gardner v. Turk
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If a litigant is to complain of the action of the trial court in the conduct of a trial, he must make his objection to the action which he deems to be improper . . . This objection . must be “timely,” that is, it must be made when the occasion for the ruling desired first appears . . . . Failure so to object . . . when the opportunity presents itself, is a waiver of the claimed error, (emphasis added). Brown v. Thomas, 316 S.W.2d 234, 237 (Mo.App.1958); § 510.210 RSMo 1969.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Ward“One cannot sit by and gamble on the outcome and, if he loses the gamble, then, for the first time, make a tergiversating objection. If he chooses to gamble he must abide his wager.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Pollard v. Whitener
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.