Mitchell v. Porter’s Empirical Analysis
1917
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently June 1964
19 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 Hickman v. Swain · Texas & Pacific Coal Co. v. Lawson · National Bank v. Texas Investment Co. · Russell v. Texas & Pacific Railway Co. · 1 Tex. Civ. App. 58 - Mathis v. Pridham, Receiver
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The district' court has general jurisdiction, of such suits, and, if one is instituted in some county other than that in which the land is located, the judgment will be valid in the absence of a plea or exception to the venue.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Weeks v. De Young““Whenever, in any law authorizing or regulating any particular character of action, the venue is expressly prescribed, the suit shall be commenced in the county to which jurisdiction may be so expressly given.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Mitchell v. Hancock““No person who is an inhabitant of this state shall be sued out of the county in which he has his domicile, except in the following cases, to wit. * * * ””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Mitchell v. Hancock
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.