Mueller v. Abdnor’s Empirical Analysis
972 F.2d 931 · 1992
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 3 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently March 2018 · most notably United States v. Saada (2000), Lorraine v. Markel American Insurance (2007)
17 federal appellate · 3 district · 6 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 New York Times Co. v. Sullivan · Gertz v. Robert Welch, Inc. · Sisson v. Ruby · Quantum Chemical Corp. v. Pratt · Jasperson v. Purolator Courier Corp.
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“exclude from hearsay the entire category of 'verbal acts' and 'verbal parts of an act,' in which the statement itself affects the legal rights of the parties or is a circumstance bearing on conduct affecting their rights.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(1) did [the defendant] actively and affirmatively take steps to induce the breach; and if so, (2) would the contracts have been performed absent [defendant's] interference?”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“A contract, for example, is a form of verbal act to which the law attaches duties and liabilities and therefore is not hearsay. In particular, evidence of lost profits based on a contract is not subject to the hearsay rule because such evidence concerns the existence of the con tractual terms rather than an assertion of their “truth.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.