Spires v. Edgar’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently November 2014 · most notably Gibson v. Brewer (1997), 103 Wash. 2d 383 - Cox v. Helenius (1985)
3 federal appellate · 42 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 Pizzo v. Pizzo · Wicker v. Knox Glass Associates, Inc. · State Ex Rel. Schweitzer v. Greene · State Ex Rel. Thompson v. Terte · Edwards v. Smith
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““When a separate trial is had before the court without a jury of claims arising out of the same transactions, occurrences or subject matter as the other claims stated or joined in the case the judgment entered shall not be deemed a final judgment for purposes of appeal within the meaning of Section 512.020, RSMo, unless specifically so designated by the court in the judgment entered.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“If the trial court intended the order of dismissal to be a final judgment for the purposes of appeal it should have “specifically so designated” it. This discretion rests in the trial court, not in this court. Pizzo v. Pizzo, Banc, 365 Mo. 1224 , 295 S.W.2d 377, 380 [1956]. Not having done so, this appeal is premature.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]he court in Dotson believed so strongly in its interpretation of rule 3.29 as amended (now rule 81.06) that it invited the trial court to amend its prior order of dismissal so as to designate it to be final for purposes of appeal under amended rule 3.29 in order that an appeal could thereafter be taken.”
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.