Pittock v. Gardner’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently April 1993
6 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 Domijan v. Harp · Troll v. Laclede Gas Light Co. · Friederich v. Chamberlain · Lynch v. St. Louis Public Service Co. · 221 Mo. App. 600 - Crawford v. Dahlenberg
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“INSTRUCTION NO. 7 Your verdict must be for defendant on plaintiffs’ claims for damages whether or not defendant was negligent if you believe: FIRST, plaintiff Sharon Gaehle drove on the wrong side of the road, and SECOND, plaintiff Sharon Gaehle’s conduct, as submitted in paragraph FIRST, was negligent, and THIRD, such negligence of plaintiff Sharon Gaehle directly caused or directly contributed to cause any damage which plaintiffs may have sustained.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Gaehle v. Skyles
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.