Mitchell v. Barfield’s Empirical Analysis
1950
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently March 2012
21 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 Kenney v. Building Commissioner · First National Pictures Distributing Corp. v. Seawell · Eley v. Atlantic Coast Line Railroad · Marshall v. Bank of Beaufort
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“await determination in proper proceedings after such use is attempted to be made of the building”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“to erect the building for which the permit is sought is otherwise absolute”
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.