Span v. Jackson-Walker Coal & Mining Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1929
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently August 1992 · most notably City of Joplin v. Jasper County (1942), Counts v. Thompson (1949)
1 federal appellate · 35 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 Coleman v. Southwick · Pomeroy v. Benton · Kinlen v. Metropolitan Street Railway Co. · Mathieson v. St. Louis & San Francisco Railroad · State Ex Rel. Brown v. Board of Education of St. Louis
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“One of the most difficult tasks required to be performed by an appellate court is the determination of the justness of a verdict in an action for a tort”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“When a statement contains or by necessary implication raises inferences of facts in conflict with those a party asserts at the trial to exist, such statements are admissible. In Brookfield v. Drury College, 139 Mo.App. [339] loc. cit. 366, 123 S.W. [86, loc. cit.] 95, the rule is thus stated: `The law of evidence as to admissions and statements of a party to the record and in interest, when made contrary to his attitude on the trial, or as to admissions negativing the averments made in his petition, is that such admissions are competent evidence against him whenever or whereever made. * * *'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.