Mitchell v. Scharf’s Empirical Analysis
1955
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently November 2017
7 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 Shafer v. Lacock, Hawthorn & Co. · Miller v. Hickey · Kotal v. Goldberg · MacK v. Reading Company · Loch v. Confair
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Great care must be exercised to limit and restrict this so-called Rule or exception to cases (a) which are exceptional, and (b) where the evidence of the cause of the accident is not equally available to both parties but is peculiarly or exclusively accessible to and within the possession of the defendant. (Citing cases.) Were it otherwise and were the exception applied literally, it would nullify and destroy the long settled and well established principles of negligence.””
1 later decision 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.