Mitchell v. Holman’s Empirical Analysis
1897
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently June 1939
2 federal appellate · 20 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 Lewis v. Lewis · Stephens v. Murton · Epstein v. State Insurance · Kleinsorge v. Rohse · Wood v. Lost Lake Manufacturing Co.
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““While a mistake of one party to an agreement may in some instances be ground for the rescission of the contract, or afford a sufficient reason for a refusal by a court to enforce specific performance thereof, it clearly will furnish no ground for reforming it.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Churchill v. Meade
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.