Labbee v. Roadway Express, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
469 F.2d 169 · 1972
Citation profile
19 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently August 1998 · most notably Hale v. Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. (1985), Agrashell, Inc. v. Hammons Products Co. (1973)
19 federal appellate · 2 district ·
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 Kiernan v. Van Schaik · Goosman v. A. Duie Pyle, Inc. · State Ex Rel. Wells v. Mayfield · Mansfield v. Wagner Electric Manufacturing 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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Missouri is one of those states where violation of a statute of this kind is evidence of negligence in a civil action. . However, before such a violation may be evidence of negligence, it must be shown that the statute was intended to protect against the sort of harm that occurred.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“However, the substance of voir dire examination is subject to the right of the parties to have an impartial jury and the questioning must in general attempt to preserve that right.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.