Mooneyhan v. Benedict’s Empirical Analysis
1955
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently May 1991 · most notably Condra Funeral Home v. Rollin (1958), Baltimore Co. v. State, Use of Keenan (1963)
5 federal appellate · 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 Benoit v. Wilson · Schiller v. Rice · Scott v. Gardner · Scott v. Gardner · Fisher v. Leach
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.
“The trouble here, however, is that there was no legal plea of guilty. The evidence, heard in the absence of the jury, is undisputed that appellee mailed a check for his fine in the amount shown on his notice to the Corporation Court, and that he never appeared in such court either in person or by attorney as required by Article 518, Vernon's Ann.Code of Criminal Procedure. 13”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Dunham v. Pannell“recognize[d] the force of this contention but [did] not consider a decision of the question required, since such admission, if such it be, was cumulative”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Dunham v. Pannell“should have been admitted as an admission against interest and this without regard to the validity of the court proceeding”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Dunham v. Pannell
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.