Mullaney v. Anderson’s Empirical Analysis
1952
Citation profile
172 federal appellate · 64 district · 77 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 487 later decisions (32 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2025 · most notably Dunn v. Blumstein (1972), Newman-Green, Inc. v. Alfonzo-Larrain (1989)
172 federal appellate · 64 district · 77 state decisions — followed in 17 states
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.
Appellate journey
reviewedAnderson v. Mullaney (from Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Toomer v. Witsell · General Reinsurance Corp. v. Commissioner · Haavik v. Alaska Packers Ass'n · Memphis Steam Laundry Cleaner, Inc. v. Stone
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 487 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The original plaintiffs alleged without contradiction that they were authorized by the nonresident union members to bring this action in their behalf. This claim of authority is now confirmed in the petition supporting the motion to add the member-fishermen as plaintiffs. To grant the motion merely puts the principal, the real party in interest, in the position of his avowed agent.”
13 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Parties may be dropped or added by order of the court on motion of any party or of its own initiative at any stage of the action and on such terms as are just.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Rule 21 will rarely come into play at this stage of a litigation” but granting petitioner's motion to add parties on the grounds that”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.