Travis v. Kansas City’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

9 state decisions

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.

1. “79.480. Notice of action shall be given—when —contents.—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.”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Dorlon v. City of Springfield · Paula Diane Robinson v. City of Kansas City, Missouri

2. ““The statute does not contemplate that the notice shall be so certain and definite in terms as to notify the city officers with such precision that they may with perfect confidence rely upon the correctness of the notice, and proceed with the trial of the cause without making an investigation of the facts of the case. However desirable that might be on the part of the officers, yet all of the authorities hold that they must arm themselves with the notice, and, with the assistance of its light, make an investigation and ascertain the truthfulness or the falsity of the statements contained in the notice.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Dorlon v. City of Springfield