In re Mitchell’s Empirical Analysis
1898
Citation profile
35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently January 1956 · most notably In Re Haines (1925), San Joaquin & Kings River Canal & Irrigation Co. v. Stevinson (1912)
35 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 United States v. Claflin · City of Pasadena v. Stimson · People ex rel. Daniels v. Henshaw · Kahn v. Sutro · Rawson v. Rawson
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Where it (a statute) is fairly susceptible of two constructions, one leading inevitably to mischief or absurdity, and the other consistent with justice, sound sense, and wise policy, the former should be rejected and the latter adopted.”
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.