Mitchell v. McClelland’s Empirical Analysis
1957
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently April 1980
9 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 Castorina v. Herrmann · Conrad v. Diehl. · Branner v. Klaber · Basman v. Frank · Deacon v. City of Ladue
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 nature of review in equity cases has historically demanded that due deference be given to the findings and conclusions of the trial chancellor, and that this rule of deference not be ignored”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Rls v. Jes
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.