Mitchell v. Sklar’s Empirical Analysis
1940
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently June 1981
1 federal appellate · 15 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 Brister v. Wray Dickinson Co. · Callender v. Marks · McCoy v. Arkansas Natural Gas Co. · Norwood v. Lake Bisteneau Oil Co. · Vernon v. Illinois Cent. R.
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It has often been held that Art. 2315 of the Civil Code is a peremption statute, yet we find it has also been held in many cases thereunder that the rules pertinent to amendments of petition and to interruption of prescription generally have been applied therein. Myers v. Gulf Public Service Corp., 15 La.App. 589 , 132 So. 416 ; Smith et ux. v. Monroe Grocery Co. et al., La.App., 171 So. 167 , and cases cited therein.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“We do not know whether a writ of review was applied for in that case or not. * * *”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Amendments are permissible at any stage of such a case, even in the Supreme Court”
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.