Sweatman v. McClure’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently November 1986
9 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 Greenwood v. BRIDGEWAYS · Hawkeye-Security Insurance Co. v. Thomas Grain Fumigant Co. · Peak Ex Rel. Peak v. W. T. Grant Co. · Nydegger v. Mason · Mullen v. St. Louis Public Service 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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Our Supreme Court has recently made it quite clear that MAI instructions and the notes on use thereof are not merely suggestions, but are mandatory requirements and that failure to follow the instructions and the notes on use will constitute error as is pointed out in Rule 70.01(b), supra. * * * ””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Chapin v. Rogers
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.