Sharp v. Mitchell’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
4 district · 222 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 226 later decisions — most recently August 2020 · most notably Gurliacci v. Mayer (1991), Sanzone v. Board of Police Commissioners (1991)
4 district · 222 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 Mingachos v. CBS, Inc. · United States v. Memphis Cotton Oil Co. · Daily v. New Britain Machine Co. · Giglio v. Connecticut Light & Power Co. · Perille v. Raybestos-Manhattan-Europe, Inc.
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 226 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]t is proper to amplify or expand what has already been alleged in support of a cause of action, . . . the identity of the cause of action”
29 later decisions quote this exact passage“two different sets of circumstances and depend on different facts.”
23 later decisions quote this exact passage“in the amended pleading arose out of the conduct, transaction or occurrence set forth or attempted to be set forth in the original pleading . . . .”
6 later decisions 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.