Mims v. Mitchell’s Empirical Analysis
1846
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently July 2004 · most notably Stuart v. Meyer (1917), Leon v. Gulf Production Co. (1931)
28 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 Hurd v. West
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The object of pleading is to apprise the court and the. opposite party of the. facts on which the pleader intends to rely, as constituting his cause of action or grounds of defense. And the averments should set forth the facts relied on with such precision, clearness, and certainty as to apprise the opposite party of what he will-be called upon to answer, and what is intended to be proved, so that the evidence introduced may not take him by surprise. Such certainty is essential in order that tire facts relied on by either party may be understood by the party who is to answer them, by the jury who are to ascertain their truth, and by the court who is to give judgment upon them.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Stuart v. Meyer
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.