211 So. 2d 509 - Mitchell v. Craft’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
27 federal appellate · 2 district · 55 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 145 later decisions — most recently August 2018 · most notably O'Connor v. O'Connor (1986), Gutierrez v. Collins (1979)
27 federal appellate · 2 district · 55 state decisions — followed in 14 states
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 Lauritzen v. Larsen · Babcock v. Jackson · Griffith v. United Air Lines, Inc. · 67 Cal. 2d 551 - Reich v. Purcell · Costello v. United States
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 145 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) The rights and liabilities of the parties with respect to an issue in tort are determined by the local law of the state which, with respect to that issue, has the most significant relationship to the occurrence and the parties under the principles stated in § 6. (2) Contacts to be taken into account in applying the principles of § 6 to determine the law applicable to an issue include: (a) the place where the injury occurred, (b) the place where the conduct causing the injury occurred, (c) the domicile, residence, nationality, place of incorporation and place of business of the parties, (d) the place where the relationship, if any, between the parties is centered.”
54 later decisions quote this exact passage“The first comparative negligence statute of general applicability in this country was enacted in Mississippi in 1910.... The statute creates what might be called true comparative negligence in that it rejects the requirement ... that the plaintiff's negligence be less than that of the defendant.... [T]he Mississippi rule presents comparative negligence in its purest and most comprehensive form....”
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.