Muller v. Light’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently March 2014
8 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 Stewart v. Basey · Atkinson v. Jackson Bros. · St. Louis Southwestern Railway Company v. Gregory · Schepps v. American District Telegraph Co. of Texas · Dyer v. Sterett
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“good and workmanlike manner as that term is used herein means that the same shall be done as a person skilled in the printing business should do it—in a manner generally considered skillful by those capable of Judging such work in the Community of the performance, [emphasis supplied]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Griffin v. Eakin
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.