Mousel v. Widicker’s Empirical Analysis
1955
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently May 1993
15 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 Bekkevold v. Potts · Froh v. Hein · Smith v. . Kappas · McQuaid v. Ross · White v. Stelloh
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Instructions of the trial court must be viewed in the light of the evidence on which they operate.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““The general principle is that instructions given by the trial court * * * should state the law as applicable to the particular facts in issue in the case at bar, which the evidence in the case tends to prove; mere abstract propositions of law applicable to any case, or mere statements of law in general terms, even though correct, should not be given unless they are made applicable to the issues in the case at bar.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Teegarden v. Dahl
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.