McMullen v. McMullen’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently December 2014
2 federal appellate · 14 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 64 So. 2d 281 - Underwood v. Underwood · Country Club Oil Co. v. Lee · 115 So. 2d 456 - Rogoff v. Rogoff · 123 So. 2d 52 - Banfi v. Banfi · John F. Clark & Co. v. Nelson
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Such contracts are contractual in nature and should be construed as other types of contracts... . The abandonment of a contract may be effected by the acts of one of the parties thereto where the acts of that party are inconsistent with the existence of the contract and are acquiesced in by the other party. This is tantamount to a rescission of the contract by mutual assent. McMullen, 185 So.2d at 193 .”
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.