Ex parte Ray’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently September 2009
12 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 238 Mo. App. 1011 - Ex Parte De Castro · Weir v. Marley · 241 Mo. App. 1048 - State Ex Rel. White v. Swink · State ex rel. Crockett v. Ellison · 240 Mo. App. 336 - Williams v. Williams
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]t is obvious that a proceeding [under Rule 68.03] resulting in a Special Master’s Report, findings of fact, conclusions of law and recommendations, in order to give any real meaning to the Rule, should logically be accorded the weight and deference which would be given to a court-tried case by a reviewing court. Both the law and the evidence should be reviewed as in suits of an equitable nature with regard given to the opportunity of the Special Master to have viewed and judged the credibility of witnesses.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Mfm v. Jom · M.F.M. v. J.O.M.
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.