Annin v. Jackson’s Empirical Analysis
1937
Citation profile
91 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 93 later decisions — most recently November 1970 · most notably Branstetter v. Gerdeman (1955), Girratono v. Kansas City Public Service Co. (1952)
91 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 Beave v. St. Louis Transit Co. · Allen v. St. Louis Transit Co. · Miller v. United Railways Co. · Tabler v. Perry · Cotton v. Ship-By-Truck 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 93 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(3) With reference to the skidding, it is well-settled doctrine that the mere skidding of a motor-car is, in and of itself, not negligence; that it is as consistent with the care as with negligence of the driver, and it may and as a matter of experience does occur without fault. Story v. People's Motorbus Co., 327 Mo. 719, 725 , 37 S.W.2d 898 , 900; Heidt v. People's Motorbus Co., 219 Mo.App. 683 , 284 S.W. 840 ; Polokoff v. Sanell, Mo.App., 52 S.W.2d 443 , 446; Peters v. United Elec. Rys. Co., 53 R.I. 251 , 165 A. 773, 774 , and cases there cited.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“there was no direction as to what acts were for consideration * * * in determining negligence vel non.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“If the car had not skidded, it is manifest from the evidence that no part of it would have fallen into the ditch. Hence, plaintiff proved not only the casualty and her injury resulting therefrom, but established beyond peradventure that the skidding of the car was the efficient, immediate, and proximate cause of the casualty. There was no showing of any act of omission or commission on the part of defendant that could justify the inference of any fault on his part that caused the car to skid.”
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.