142 So. 2d 740 - Mitchell v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1962
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently September 1982
4 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 8 Ill. App. 2d 1 - Williams v. Williams · Wacker v. Wacker · Wunsch v. Wunsch · McGuire v. McGuire · State v. J. K.
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It seems to the Court that when a written report is considered by the Court in connection with any ruling or judgment, it should be filed in evidence the same as any other writing the Court may consider. It is error for the Court to consider any writing or anything else that is not in evidence.” ‡ % ‡ ‡ * “The record reflects that the chancellor was most diligent in seeking to be fully informed when he should make the vital decision involving the home in which the boy should live, but unfortunately his zeal carried him without the realm of evidence. It was not the duty of counsel for appellant to attend to getting the report into evidence but counsel for the appellee having sought to have it considered by the Court, thereby assumed the duty of having it properly before the Court.” * * * * * *”
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.