Quinn v. Graham’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently September 2016
8 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 Peterson v. Kansas City · Reno v. City of St. Joseph · Hunt v. City of St. Louis · Brickell v. KANSAS CITY, MO · Powers v. Kansas City, Mo.
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Giving of the notice in substantial compliance with the requirements of this statute is a condition precedent to the right to maintain the suit and to the right to recover damages (Shuff v. Kansas City, Mo.App., 257 S.W. 844 , 846(6); 18 McQuillin — Municipal Corporations, 3rd Ed. Revised, § 53.154, pp. 558-563), and ‘the giving of notice is required in every case, regardless of other sources and means of information possessed by the city.’ Lyons v. City of St. Joseph, 112 Mo.App. 681, 684 , 87 S.W. 588 . “The apparent rule is that the requirements of the statute that notice must be in writing and given to the mayor within the time specified are to be strictly construed [Cole v. City of St. Joseph, Mo., 50 S.W.2d 623 , 624, 82 A.L.R. 742 ; Ogle v. Kansas City, Mo.App., 242 S.W. 115 (1)], but as to the contents of the notice the statute is to be construed liberally in favor of plaintiff and strictly against the city so that a substantial compliance is sufficient.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““No action shall be maintained against any city organized under the laws of this state as a city of the fourth class on account of any injuries growing out of any defect or unsafe condition of or on any bridge, boulevard, street, sidewalk or thoroughfare, in said city until notice shall first have been given in writing to the mayor of said city, within ninety days of the occurrence for which said damage is claimed, stating the place where, the time when such injury was received, and the character and circumstances of the injury, and that the person so injured will claim damages therefor from such city.””
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.