Mitchell v. Cobb’s Empirical Analysis
1960
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently September 1987
2 federal appellate · 4 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 Mitchell v. Austin · Glenn v. City of Birmingham · Homewood Dairy Products Co. v. Robinson · Burns v. Burns · Bank of Oakman v. Thompson
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““There is no doubt that where an obligation is extinguished by a release therefrom given to the debtor by the creditor which is in writing, no consideration is needed to uphold the release.” (Citing cases.)”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““All * * * releases, and discharges in writing * * * must have effect according to the intention of the parties thereto.””
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.