Williamson v. Cox’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently June 2014
7 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 South Central Enterprises, Inc. v. Farrington · Morrison v. Olson · Gustafson v. Benda · Fahy v. Dresser Industries, Inc. · Cox v. JC Penney Co., Inc.
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If plaintiff was aware of the opening, that does not prevent his claim from being submitted to the jury. Cases relied on by appellant indicating to the contrary were previous to Gustafson v. Benda, 661 S.W.2d 11 (Mo. banc 1983), as applied in Cox v. J.C. Penney Co., 741 S.W.2d 28 (Mo. banc 1987). Since those decisions a plaintiffs knowledge of the danger is considered in determining his comparative negligence rather than in determining the duty of defendant.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Becker v. Setien
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.