Fisher v. McIlroy’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently May 2011
2 federal appellate · 19 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 Blevins v. Cushman Motors · Means v. Sears, Roebuck & Co. · Firestone v. Crown Center Redevelopment Corp. · Zipp v. Gasen's Drug Stores, Inc. · Smith v. Courter
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A trial court has broad discretion when determining whether to permit an amendment of the pleadings, and the court’s decision will not be disturbed, on appeal unless there is an obvious and palpable abuse of such discretion.” Fisher v. McIlroy, 739 S.W.2d 577, 580 (Mo.App.1987).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“within the general scope of the pleadings.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Kilmer v. Browning
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.