Smale v. Mitchell’s Empirical Analysis
143 U.S. 99 · 1892
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions (5 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 1950
11 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Ex Parte Charles Sibbald v. The United States · Mitchell v. Smale · Roberts v. Cooper · Stewart v. Salamon · Miles v. Caldwell
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We are of opinion that, when an action of ejectment is tried in a Circuit Court of the United States according to the statutory mode of proceeding, that court is governed by the provisions concerning new trials as it is by the other provisions of the state statute. There is no reason why the federal court' should disregard one of the rules by which the state Legislature has guarded the transfer of the possession and title to real estate within its jurisdiction.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Wellman v. Bethea
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.