Mitchell v. Mitchell’s Empirical Analysis
1957
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently June 2019 · most notably Martin v. Trevino (1978), Clyde v. Hamilton (1967)
24 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 Mitchell v. Mitchell · Bumpass v. Johnson · Benson v. Greenville Nat. Exchange Bank · Wells v. State · Mitchell v. Mitchell
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is a well-established rule that under the doctrine of stare decisis when the Supreme Court once determines the true construction of a will or other written instrument that construction is binding in all subsequent suits involving the same subject matter, even though the parties in subsequent suits may not be the same as in the original suit.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the doctrine of stare decisis does not absolutely bind this court to follow its prior decisions,” particularly if”
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.