Ayres v. Keith’s Empirical Analysis
1962
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently November 2005 · most notably State v. Baker (2003), Hastings v. Coppage (1967)
27 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 Grodsky v. Consolidated Bag Co. · State Ex Rel. Wells v. Mayfield · State Ex Rel. Berberich v. Haid · Hotchner v. Liebowits · Smith v. Siercks
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The intent is that both the trial court and the appellate court may know specifically what the objections are, and that the appellate court may know that they have been presented to the trial court.” Ayres v. Keith, 355 S.W.2d 914, 917 (Mo.1962).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The basic theory of each instruction was that plaintiff was negligent because he walked from a position of safety.... against a red light and into a zone occupied by lawfully moving traffic.... [Wjhile the two subsections of the ordinance differed somewhat in their precise provisions; the net result of each was that a pedestrian must not walk into a traffic lane where the traffic had the right of way. Id.”
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.