Lewis v. Wolfe’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently October 1998
4 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 Leggett v. Missouri State Life Insurance Company · Producers Produce Co. v. Industrial Commission of Missouri Division of Employment Security · Edgar v. Fitzpatrick · In Re Petersen's Estate · Cross v. Gimlin
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““At the same time, where the evidence is conflicting and close, and particularly when the decision depends upon conflicting oral testimony and the credibility of witnesses, the appellate court should generally defer to the findings of the trial court unless it is satisfied they should have been otherwise. Leggett v. Missouri State Life Ins. Co., Mo., 342 S.W. 2d 833, 850 [2]; In re Petersen’s Estate, Mo., 295 S.W.2d 144, 148 [3].””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Sims v. Williams
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.