Grace v. Mitchell’s Empirical Analysis
1872
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently May 1990
22 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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.
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.
“should have the right to call upon the plaintiff or party interested for indemnity, and that the plaintiff or such party should be required to give it where he insists upon the writ being executed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ter Maat v. Barnett
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.