Mitchell v. . Melts’s Empirical Analysis
1942
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 79 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 86 later decisions — most recently August 2001 · most notably Yancey v. Lea (2001), Thomas v. Motor Lines (1949)
3 federal appellate · 79 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.
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 86 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““(a) Business District. — The territory contiguous to a highway where Seventy-five per cent or more of the frontage thereon for a distance of three hundred (300) feet or more is occupied by buildings in use for business purposes.” (Our italics)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Black v. Penland“but also near, though not in contact; neighboring; * *.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Eldred v. Burns
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.