Mitchell v. Dixie Ice Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1924
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently January 1967 · most notably Succession of Howell (1933), Paul v. Arnoult (1927)
4 federal appellate · 25 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 Williams v. Pope Manufacturing Co. · 29 La. Ann. 213 - Cooper v. Cappel · Holzab v. New Orleans & Carrollton Railroad · Barton v. Kavanaugh · Knoblock & Rainold v. Posey
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In suits for damages for injuries suffered by the community, this court has never held that the mere assent of the husband is sufficient, or that the wife alone can judicially vindicate the rights of the community. There is a uniform and unbroken line of decisions to the contrary, all holding that in suits of this character the wife is not competent to stand in judgment, and that the suit must be brought in the name of the husband.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Succession of Howell
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.