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← 710 S.W.2d 8 - Davis v. Shelton

Davis v. Shelton’s Empirical Analysis

1986

Citation profile

4
cited by 4 later decisions
1
states following
April 1994
most recently cited

2 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Bass v. Nooney Co. · Snowden v. Northwest Missouri State University

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

  1. “muscle twitching, weakness, disturbed sleep, stomach ache and unwarranted fears of walking and being hit by a motor vehicle”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. Beeman v. Safeway Stores, Inc.
  2. “were not sufficiently severe as to be legally cognizable.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. Beeman v. Safeway Stores, Inc.
  3. “no damages cognizable under the Bass decision.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. Beeman v. Safeway Stores, Inc.

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.