Mulhern v. Hayne’s Empirical Analysis
1931
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently May 1986 · most notably Vincent v. Bullock (1939), Brown v. Sugar Creek Syndicate (1940)
2 federal appellate · 40 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 Nabors Oil & Gas Co. v. Louisiana Oil Refining Co. · Lewis v. Bodcaw Lumber Co. · La Del Oil Properties, Inc. v. Magnolia Petroleum Co. · Soniat v. Village of Krotz Springs
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * By joining in this lease plaintiff thereby recognized all of the rights of his colessors, and he cannot escape the effect of his written acknowledgment, which, in our opinion, we must hold to be an interruption of the then accruing prescription.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“whenever the debtor, or possessor, makes acknowledgment of the right of the person whose title they prescribed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Nolen v. Bennett
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.