Whitaker v. Pitcairn’s Empirical Analysis
1943
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently October 1978 · most notably Stephens v. Kansas City Gas Company (1946), Belding v. St. Louis Public Service Co. (1948)
2 federal appellate · 42 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 Seaboard Air Line Railway v. Horton · Patton v. Texas & Pacific Railway Co. · Anne Sweeney v. William G Errving · San Juan Light Transit Company v. Belen Requena · New Orleans Co v. Harris
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When the result in part is ascribable to the participation of man, either through active intervention or neglect or failure to act, “the whole occurrence is thereby humanized, as it were, and removed from the operation of the rules applicable to the acts of God.” Kennedy, supra, 216 S.W.2d at 763 [quoting Whitaker v. Pitcairn, 351 Mo. 848 , 174 S.W.2d 163, 168 (1943)].”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Arthur v. Royse
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.