Mullan v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1896
Citation profile
56 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 57 later decisions — most recently March 1998 · most notably 30 Cal. 2d 817 - County of San Diego v. California Water & Telephone Co. (1947), 36 Cal. 3d 687 - American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations v. Eu (1984)
56 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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 Miller v. Dunn · People v. Toal · Brooks v. Fischer · Cole v. Segraves · Whiting v. Townsend
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 57 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““One dealing with public officers is charged with the knowledge of, and is bound at his peril to ascertain, the extent of their powers to bind the state for which they seem to act. And, if they exceed their authority, the state is not bound thereby to any extent.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“A mere resolution ... is not a competent method of expressing the legislative will, where that expression is to have the force of law, and bind others than the members of the house or houses adopting it.”
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.