Mitchell v. Doggett’s Empirical Analysis
1847
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently June 1985
1 federal appellate · 9 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 Thompson v. Woodbridge
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“‘The case at bar must stand upon the law in relation to the contract itself, and we can find no authority that declares that a contract rendered void by statute can, upon a repeal of that statute, acquire a vitality which it did not before possess. Sound policy, justice and morality unite in stern opposition to such a principle. ’”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Clark v. Grey
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.