Mullally v. Mullally’s Empirical Analysis
1945
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently October 1965 · most notably Harmon v. Harmon (1953), Dutton v. Freeman (1957)
25 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 Stoner v. Stoner · Ruis v. Lothridge · Brightwell v. Brightwell · Meadows v. Meadows · Coleman v. Thomasson
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The absence of jurisdiction, appearing on the face of a petition, may be raised by general demurrer complaining that the petition fails to allege a cause of action for the relief sought. Ruis v. Lothridge, 149 Ga. 474 ( 100 S. E. 635 ); Coleman v. Thomasson, 160 Ga. 81, 85 ( 127 S. E. 129 ).”
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.