Muller v. Tanner’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently April 2007 · most notably 53 Cal. App. 4th 43 - Wolfgram v. Wells Fargo Bank (1997), 55 Cal. App. 4th 1004 - In Re Bittaker (1997)
26 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 Cohen v. Beneficial Industrial Loan Corp. · 63 Cal. 2d 153 - Isrin v. Superior Court · 53 Cal. 2d 187 - Jacobs v. Superior Court · 25 Cal. 2d 37 - Wells Fargo & Co. v. City & County of San Francisco · 103 Cal. App. 2d 405 - Kalmus v. Kalmus
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In upholding the constitutionality of the provisions of the statute dealing with this subject it was noted that the judge could fix the amount of the fees from his knowledge of legal practice. This, however, does not mean that he can, as was done in this case, look at a complaint and determine, without further evidence, the time and labor which will be expended to defeat the claim. Not even the nature of defendant's defense was disclosed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Wolfe v. George
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.