Mohn v. Tingley’s Empirical Analysis
1923
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 53 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 61 later decisions — most recently October 2023 · most notably Fuentes v. Tucker (1947), 48 Cal. 2d 655 - Daggett v. Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Co. (1957)
2 federal appellate · 53 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 Pennoyer v. Neff · Pereira v. Pereira · De la Montanya v. De la Montanya · Adkins v. Brett · Tingley v. Times Mirror Co.
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 61 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If an original complaint fails to state a cause of action and a new or different cause is not set up by the amended complaint, but new matters are added therein merely to make the original cause •complete, the amendment, though made after the expiration of the period of limitations, relates back to the time of the filing of the first complaint.””
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.