Mink v. Whitfield’s Empirical Analysis
1928
Citation profile
46 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently October 2013 · most notably Lay v. Phillips (1964), McNeil v. Hadden (1954)
46 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 Copeland v. Warren · Yauger v. Taylor · Ex Parte Russell · City of Tuscaloosa v. Fitts · Shepherd v. Scott's Chapel
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In equity cases, the court will only consider legal evidence, regardless of whether objections were interposed, and need not discuss and recite evidence which the court holds sufficient or insufficient to support a decree from which an appeal is pending. * * *”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Redwine v. Jackson
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.