Mueller v. Ober’s Empirical Analysis
1927
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently July 1978
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 6 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 Miller v. Tiffany · Walker v. Lovitt · Dupree v. Virgil R. Coss Mortgage Company · Manhattan Life Ins. Co. v. . Johnson · Green v. Northwestern Trust Co.
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““There were two laws (perhaps three) with reference to any one of which they could have contracted, and the contract accords with one, viz., the Iowa law. It must be presumed that the parties so intended, because they had their election, acting in good faith, to make the contract according to their selection. The presumption is that the parties intended to contract with reference to the law of the state in which the contract would be valid.””
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.