Mitchell v. Nixon’s Empirical Analysis
200 F.2d 50 · 1952
Citation profile
8 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently November 1983
8 federal appellate ·
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 Case of Broderick's Will · Sutton v. English · Farrell v. O'Brien · Ellis v. Davis · Kaplan v. Coleman
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“dispute between parties, who, having accepted its (the will's) existence, differ as to its construction or interpretation,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.