Carpenter v. Davis’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently September 2013
21 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. · McComb v. Vaughn · Hall v. Mutual Ben. Health & Accident Ass'n · 241 Mo. App. 1244 - Neely v. Kansas City Public Service Co. · Graham Ex Rel. Graham v. Stroh
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“An opinion as to fault in a negligence action is particularly susceptible to error. A witness at trial may, intentionally or otherwise, change a word and convey a meaning completely different from that intended by the declarant. An opinion as to fault may be ambiguous, and yet persuasive, where, as here, no opportunity exists for explanation or denial.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“a party should be held responsible for statements of fact or opinion, previously made, which conflict with the position tak en by him in the judicial proceeding. Such statements may affect credibility and proof, and may aid the jury in arriving at the truth. In any event, the declarant is available in court to advance or defend his position.”
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.