Duran v. Mueller’s Empirical Analysis
1963
Citation profile
48 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently July 2015 · most notably Shoshone Coca-Cola Bottling Company v. Dolinski (1966), Village Development Co. v. Filice (1974)
48 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 49 Cal. 2d 652 - Butigan v. Yellow Cab Co. · Wagon Wheel Saloon & Gambling Hall, Inc. v. Mavrogan · State v. Kuhl · Lathrop v. Smith · McPherson v. Martin
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““. . . If one instruction adequately covers a given theory of liability or defense, it is preferable that the court refuse additional instructions relating to the same theory, though couched in different language. . . .””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[T]he number of instructions to be given is discretionary with the court.”
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.