Mitchell v. Woodworth’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
125 federal appellate · 69 district · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 318 later decisions (9 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2000 · most notably Sierra Club v. Morton (1972), Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Corp. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. (1978)
125 federal appellate · 69 district · 11 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 Jenkins v. United States · Wheatley v. Adler · Mitchell v. Woodworth
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 318 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In any proceeding for the enforcement of a claim for compensation under this chapter it shall be presumed, in the absence of substantial evidence to the contrary (a) That the claim comes within the provisions of this chapter. . . .”
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.