Milstead v. Milstead’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently January 2008
7 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 Burnaman v. Heaton · Vickrey v. American Youth Camps, Inc. · Travelers Insurance Co. v. Williams · Leal v. Cortez
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The trial court has no power to supply terms, provisions or details not previously agreed to by the parties. When the parties submitted conflicting motions for judgment, the trial court was put on notice that mutual consent of the parties was lacking. At that point, rather than granting one party’s motion and denying the other, the court should have denied both motions on the ground that mutual consent was lacking. [Citations omitted, emphasis in original.]”
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.