Mueller v. Schien’s Empirical Analysis
1943
Citation profile
85 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 85 later decisions — most recently October 1981 · most notably Hamre v. Conger (1948), West v. St. Louis Public Service Co. (1951)
85 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 Lewis Ex Rel. Piening v. Zagata · Rouchene v. Gamble Construction Co. · Mendenhall v. Neyer · Nelson v. Evans · McCombs v. Ellsberry
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 85 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“and we are precluded from reversing the judgment unless we `shall believe that error was committed * * * against the appellant * * * and materially affecting the merits of the action.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“was misleading depends upon how it would be understood by a jury composed of ordinarily intelligent laymen when read in connection with all of the other instructions in the case.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. MacHens v. MacHens“* * * the fact that plaintiff was injured is, in itself, no evidence of any negligence on the part of defendant”
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.