Mueller v. Mueller’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 64 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 66 later decisions — most recently November 2008 · most notably State v. Best (1975), Bartak v. Bell-Galyardt & Wells, Inc. (1980)
2 federal appellate · 64 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 154 Cal. App. 2d 560 - Salgo v. Leland Stanford Jr. University Board of Trustees · Dwyer v. Christensen · Mulder v. Parke Davis & Company · Hanisch v. Body · Jensen v. Miller
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 66 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The busy doctor has no alternative but to prescribe these drugs according to the recommendations of the drug manufacturers. No one would expect him to stop his practice and conduct tests and experiments so that he could prescribe the drug solely from his own independent findings.on its usefulness and possible side effects.” 221 N.W.2d at 43 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Best“these manufacturer's recommendations on the use of drugs are not only admissible but essential in determining the possible lack of care of a doctor where the issue involved is injury from the administration of a drug”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Garvey v. O'DONOGHUE“to justify his reasons for the deviation from such recommendation.”
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.