Jackson v. Radtke’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

8 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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “In Pasley v. Newton, 455 S.W.2d 43 (Mo.App.1970), at 47, this court in applying what is now Rule 78.07 said that in a motion for new trial the specific allegations necessary to preserve error “must be sufficiently definite to direct the court’s attention to the particular acts or rulings asserted to be erroneous.” The court relied on Schneider v. Southwestern Bell Telephone Co., 413 S.W.2d 16 (Mo.App.1967), which said at 19: The dual purpose of an after-trial motion is stated tersely in Fruit Supply Co. v. Chicago, B. & Q. Ry. Co., Mo.App. [1938], 119 S.W.2d 1010 (4): “The office of a motion for a new trial is to gather together the rulings complained of as erroneous, and solemnly and formally present them, one by one, in black and white to the judge in order that he have a last chance to correct his own errors without the delay, or expense, or other hardships of an appeal. This much is required. Less does not preserve the rulings for review.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Ayers v. Aurora Enterprises, Inc.