Mitchell v. Clark’s Empirical Analysis
110 U.S. 633 · 1884
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 8 district · 21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 103 later decisions (17 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2013 · most notably Louisville Joint Stock Land Bank v. Radford (1935), Brown v. Walker (1896)
13 federal appellate · 8 district · 21 state decisions — followed in 14 states
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 Mayor v. Cooper · Arnson v. Murphy · Williams v. Bruffy · Jenkins v. International Bank
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 103 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The question in all such cases is one that arises under the Constitution and laws of the United States, because the act questioned is one-done or omitted under color of authority claimed to be derived from the government, and, therefore, involves . the consideration whether such authority did in fact, or could in law, exist. It is one, consequently, that falls within the * * *_ jurisdiction of the judicial power. of the United States. Hence it follows that Congress might vest that jurisdiction exclusively in the courts of the United States, and might regulate all the incidents of suits brought in any jurisdiction authorized to entertain them.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Bell v. Baker““Had Congress power to, pass such a law? The suit being one which, under the act of Congress, could be removed into the courts of the United States, Congress could certainly prescribe for it the .law of limitations for those courts. If for such actions in those courts, why not in all courts? Otherwise there would he two rules of limitation of actions in different courts holding pleas of the same cause.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Bell v. Baker“The question whether a plea sets up a sufficient defence, when the defence relied on arises under an act.of Congress, does present, and that necessarily, a question of-Federal law; for the question is arid must be, does the plea state facts which under the act of Congress constitute a good defence ?”
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.