Mitchell v. Mitchell’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently November 2010 · most notably Glasscock v. Glasscock (1991), Stevenson v. Stevenson (1988)
44 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 Townes Associates, Ltd. v. City of Greenville · Stevenson v. Stevenson · Nienow v. Nienow · Smith v. Smith · Parrott v. Parrott
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A divorce action being a matter in equity heard by the trial judge alone, this Court’s scope of review extends to the finding of facts based on its own view of the preponderance of the evidence. Mitchell v. Mitchell, 283 S. C. 87, 320 S. E. (2d) 706 (1984); Townes Associates, Ltd. v. City of Greenville, 266 S. C. 81, 221 S. E. (2d) 773 (1976).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. McNeill v. McNeill
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.