Muilenburg v. Blevins’s Empirical Analysis
1955
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently December 2001
21 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 Rader v. Queen City Coach Co. · Fox v. Cramerton Mills, Inc. · Higdon v. Jaffa · Worsley v. S. &. W. Rendering Co. · Davis v. Robinson
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““. . . An apartment house is located on the lot adjacent to the plaintiffs’ property to the east on Circle Avenue. In this same block at the corner of Circle Avenue and Willoughby Street, according to the record, is a plumbing and heating establishment. Adjacent to the property of the plaintiffs on the south is an apartment house, while on the west side of Providence Road opposite plaintiffs’ property the entire block is occupied by an apartment house, an office building and & filling station.””
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.