Mitchell v. Lindly’s Empirical Analysis
1960
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently September 2006
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 Doll v. Doll · Succession of Williams · Chaney v. Reddin · Kingsbury v. Brown · Mitchell v. Williamson
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[Ojnce a judgment has been paid and fully satisfied according to its terms it becomes extinguished, a dead thing, and is no longer a judgment in the sense that a judgment fixes and finally establishes the rights and obligations of the parties thereto.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“a correct judgment, although based on the wrong reasons, will not be set aside on appeal.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Watts v. Pinckney
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.