State v. Zweifel’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
8
cited by 8 later decisions
1
states following
August 1989
most recently cited
8 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Guthrie v. City of St. Charles · State v. Brinkley · State v. Henderson · State v. Null · Bailey v. Hilleman
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The applicable rule, as stated in Guthrie v. City of St. Charles, 347 Mo. 1175, 1188 , 152 S.W.2d 91, 97 (8), is that where a plaintiff shows a casualty resulted from one of several causes, for only part of which the defendant was responsible, no case is made — unless the evidence also shows a greater probability that the proximate cause was one for which the defendant was liable. (Emphasis in original).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Bates
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.