Cates v. Webster’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently May 2014
10 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 State Ex Rel. St. Louis-San Francisco Railway Co. v. Buder · Schroeder Ex Rel. Schroeder v. Horack · Barnes Ex Rel. Barnes v. Real Silk Hosiery Mills · Vaughan v. Taft Broadcasting Co. · State Ex Rel. Weinstein v. St. Louis County
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“1. There is hereby created a "State Legal Expense Fund" which shall consist of moneys appropriated to the fund by the general assembly and moneys otherwise credited to such fund pursuant to section 105.716. 2. Moneys in the state legal expense fund shall be available for the payment of any claim or any amount required by any final judgment rendered by a court of competent jurisdiction against: . . . . (2) Any officer or employee of the state of Missouri or any agency of the state, including, without limitation, elected officials, appointees, members of state boards or commissions, and members of the Missouri national guard upon conduct of such officer or employee arising out of and performed in connection with his or her official duties on behalf of the state, or any agency of the state, . . . . . . . 5. All payments shall be made from the state legal expense fund by the commissioner of administration with the approval of the attorney general..... . . . . The state legal expense fund shall be the exclusive remedy and shall preclude any other civil actions or proceedings for money damages arising out of or relating to the same subject matter against the state officer or employee, or the officer's or employee's estate. No officer or employee of the state or any agency of the state shall be individually liable in his or her personal capacity for conduct of such officer or employee arising out of and performed in connection with his or her official duties on behalf of the state o”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Reid v. Steelman“Under § 105.711.2, moneys in the State Legal Expense Fund [the Fund] shall be available for the payment of any claim or any amount required by any final judgment rendered by a court of competent jurisdiction. Because the subsection specifies the rendering of any final judgment as one of the alternative “act[s] or transaction^],” [State ex rel. St. Louis-San Francisco Ry. Co. v. Buder, 515 S.W.2d 409, 411 (Mo. banc 1974) ] triggering an obligation to pay money on behalf of an employee, the protection provided the employee under the Fund arises when the claim is made and extends to the time when a judgment might be rendered. From this we must conclude the legislature broadly intended to include those claims not yet reduced to final judgment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Sherf v. Koster“Although the quoted provisions relate to personnel other than bailiffs, they exhibit a legislative intent, in apportioning duties and liabilities between the state and counties, to consider as state employees those judicial personnel paid by the state and to consider as nonstate employees those judicial personnel paid by the county.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.