Mitchell v. Wright’s Empirical Analysis
154 F.2d 924 · 1946
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 1 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently September 2006 · most notably Schisler v. State (2006), Browder v. Gayle (1956)
10 federal appellate · 1 district · 5 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 41 · 8 U.S.C. § 31
Relies on Yick Wo v. Hopkins · Cannon v. United States · Federal Communications Commission v. Pottsville Broadcasting Co. · Prentis v. Atlantic Coast Line Co. · Smith v. Allwright
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We have several elements with which we may distinguish legislative and judicial functions, to wit: the element of futurity or retrospect, that of generality or particularity, that of discretion, and that of initiation. A good example of the element of discretion is the determination of a legislative body on the basis of public interest____ One must be careful ... not to confuse this legislative discretion with judicial discretion.”
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.