Mulling v. Jones’s Empirical Analysis
1917
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently November 1949
13 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 Birmingham v. O'Neil · State ex rel. Jacobs v. Judge of the Eleventh District Court · Beasley v. Jenkins · Adle v. Anty · Robinson v. Butler
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The learned counsel for the plaintiffs in judgment argue that by the laws of Mississippi a married woman may bind herself and stand in judgment without need of the authorization of her husband; but no proof of that fact has been made, and until the lavas of said state are proved to he different from ours they must be presumed to be the same as ours.” (Emphasis mine.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Welch v. Jacobsmeyer
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.