Mitchell v. Maurer’s Empirical Analysis
293 U.S. 237 · 1934
Citation profile
772 federal appellate · 40 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,378 later decisions (34 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2026 · most notably Seminole Tribe of Florida v. Florida (1996), Fw/pbs Inc II v. City of Dallas Mjr Inc (1990)
772 federal appellate · 40 district · 10 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedMitchell v. Maurer (from Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Mansfield Ry Co v. Swan · William Booth v. Ferdinand Clark · White v. Ewing · Hooe v. Jamieson
Cited together with Bender v. Williamsport Area School District · Mansfield Ry Co v. Swan · United States v. Corrick · Steel Co. v. Citizens for a Better Environment · American Fire & Casualty Co. v. Finn
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 1,378 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[E]very federal appellate court has a special obligation to 'satisfy itself not only of its own jurisdiction, but also that of the lower courts in a cause under review,' even though the parties are prepared to concede it.”
55 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“cannot be waived or be overcome by an agreement of the parties.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The order appointing ancillary receivers attacked in McCandless v. Furlaud ... on the ground that the court was without federal jurisdiction, had been entered, not in the suit there under review, but in a separate proceeding in the same court.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Page v. Schweiker
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.