Mitchell v. Moore’s Empirical Analysis
1943
Citation profile
39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently April 2009 · most notably Pacheco v. Martinez (1981), Mumaw v. Roberson (1952)
39 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 Ranger Realty Co. v. Hefty · Black v. Tenn. Coal, Iron & Railroad · Brannan v. Henry · Ansley v. Graham · Andreu v. Watkins
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Extrinsic facts pointed out in the description may be resorted to to ascertain the land conveyed, and the property may be identified by extrinsic evidence, as in the case of records of the county where the land is situate.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“* * * Where the boundaries of land described in any deed really are, is always a question of fact; and parol testimony is admissible to show where they are, or apply the description to its subject-matter * * *.”
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.