In re Mullin’s Empirical Analysis
1895
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently June 1983
24 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 In Re Proving the Will of Coleman · Alberti v. N. Y., Lake Erie & Western Railroad · In re Estate of Flint · In re the Last Will of Guilfoyle · In re Estate of Wax
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“". . . these objections are not to be upheld. In making his attending physician a subscribing witness to his will the deceased did exactly what he effected in the case of his attorney at law—waived the privilege and invited a full and proper examination of the matters and facts upon which their lips would otherwise have been sealed.””
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.