Mitchell v. Dickey’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently June 2005 · most notably Koehler v. Massell (1972), Grant v. Fourth Nat. Bank of Columbus (1972)
33 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 Bourn v. Herring · Mack v. Kime · Martin v. Approved Bancredit Corp. · Sapp v. Callaway · Stewart v. Jarriel
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a motion to dismiss for failure to state a claim shall not be granted unless it appears to a certainty that the plaintiff would be entitled to no relief under any state of facts which could be proved in support of his claim”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[A] complaint is not required to set forth a cause of action, but need only set forth a claim for relief, and that a complaint is no longer to be construed most strongly against the pleader. [Cits.]”
3 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.