Robinson v. Mutchmore’s Empirical Analysis
1929
Citation profile
3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 3 later decisions — most recently November 1961
3 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 Reitz v. Cooper · Eaton v. Giles
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Defendant converted the action into one to quiet his own title by proper allegations of possession and title and prayer for affirmative relief. The result was, the question whether plaintiff or defendant was in actual possession became immaterial.” (p. 420.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hewett v. Gott
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.