Mann v. Mitchell’s Empirical Analysis
1922
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently May 1978
1 federal appellate · 8 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 Tribby v. Wokee · Scoby v. Sweatt · Pacific Express Co. v. Darnell Bros. · 59 Tex. Civ. App. 155 - Austin v. Jackson Trust & Savings Bank · Usher v. Skidmore
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The general rule is that, unless the pleadings upon their face disclose a contrary purpose, an amended original petition will be regarded and treated as only a continuation of the same suit, and upon the same cause of action described in the original pleadings. The plaintiff may by amendment not only make new parties and enlarge the scope of the original suit, but he may also adopt that means for the purpose of correcting clerical errors in stating the names of the defendant and in the description of the instrument or contract sued on, without breaking the continuity of the original suit.””
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.