State v. Mueller’s Empirical Analysis
1965
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently August 2010
16 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 State of Texas v. State of Florida · State v. Snyder · Bostwick v. Allen · Ramos v. Ramos · Landers v. Smith
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[N]o definition can be complete which omits the element of sentiment, that quality, intangible and elusive though it may be, which nevertheless in the common understanding of a man serves most readily to identify his home and to distinguish it from every other place — that lifts it from an adjunct of living to an object of life — that goes beyond the law’s language and animates the image with the breach of family affection and the gentle warmth of hospitality shared with friends, and endows it with comfort in affliction, with respite from care, and the promise of pleasant repose. ...”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“[w]hat a man says about it may as easily conceal it as reveal it.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“It has been said that the question of legal residence ‘is often difficult to determine.’ In re Ozias’ Estate, 29 S.W.2d 240 , 243 (Mo.App.1930); State on Inf. of McKittrick v. Wiley, 349 Mo. 239 , 160 S.W.2d 677, 686 (1942). It will be found in every ease, however, that the difficulty has arisen upon disputed facts, in the determination of which the credibility of the opposing witnesses haso frequently been a factor.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Henderson v. Murray
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.