Mitchell v. Donohue’s Empirical Analysis
1893
Citation profile
42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently March 1968 · most notably In Re Estate of Spitzer (1925), Estate of Button (1930)
42 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 In re Estate of Skerrett · Clarke v. Ransom · In re the Estate of Wood
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“That's for you, for fear anything should happen ...”
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.