State v. Mitchell’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
61 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 61 later decisions — most recently February 2021 · most notably THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS v. MATTHEW ANDREWS (2018), AKA v. Jefferson Hosp. Ass'n, Inc. (2001)
61 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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 654 (§ 454 of the Social Security Act of 1935)
Relies on Santiago v. United States · Parish v. Pitts · Edmonson v. Farris · Brickhouse v. Hill · Fireman's Insurance v. Arkansas State Claims Commission
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 61 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[p]recedent governs until it gives a result so patently wrong, so manifestly unjust, that a break becomes unavoidable.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“adherence by a court to its own decisions ... is necessary and proper for the regularity and uniformity of practice, and that litigants may know with certainty the rules by which they must be governed in the conducting of their cases.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Bharodia v. Pledger
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.