Mueller v. Mueller’s Empirical Analysis
1956
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 67 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 70 later decisions — most recently August 2015 · most notably 38 Cal. App. 3d 93 - In Re Marriage of Lopez (1974), Weinberg v. Weinberg (1967)
3 federal appellate · 67 state decisions — followed in 11 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 41 Cal. 2d 202 - Gudelj v. Gudelj · Lazar v. Superior Court · Freese v. Hibernia Savings & Loan Society · 106 Cal. App. 681 - Fellows v. Fellows · 108 Cal. App. 2d 451 - Slavich v. Slavich
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 70 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Although community goodwill is usually associated with a professional practice, it may exist in any business which is founded upon personal skill or reputation.”
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.