Mizar v. Jones’s Empirical Analysis
1965
Citation profile
2 district · 42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently May 2013 · most notably Firelock Inc. v. District Court in & for the 20th Judicial District of the State of Colorado (1989), Centric-Jones Co. v. Hufnagel (1993)
2 district · 42 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 Cervi v. Town of Greenwood Village · Rudd v. Rogerson · Yampa Valley Coal Co. v. Velotta · Johnson v. Westland Theatres, Inc.
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]t is worthy of note that courts do exist primarily to afford a forum to settle litigable matters between disputing parties, . . . [and] one's day in court should not be denied except upon a serious showing of wilful default.”
8 later decisions 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.