Mitchell v. Shoals, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
3 district · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently July 1995 · most notably 183 W. Va. 77 - Anderson v. Moulder (1990), 69 Ill. 2d 534 - Nelson v. Araiza (1978)
3 district · 16 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 Morton v. Roth
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.
““There is no justification, either in the language of the legislation or in its history, for exonerating the latter simply because he had also served, and brought about the inebriety of, the third person who was hurt. As long as the latter does not himself cause or procure the intoxication of the other, there is no basis, under the statute, for denying him a recovery from the party unlawfully purveying the liquor.” (Emphasis added.) [Mitchell v. Shoals, Inc. (1967), 19 N.Y.2d 338, 341 , 227 N.E.2d 21, 23 , 280 N.Y.S.2d 113, 116 , 26 A.L.R. 3d 1107, 1110 .)”
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.