Mitcham v. City of Detroit’s Empirical Analysis
1959
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently July 2018 · most notably Maiden v. Rozwood (1999), 244 Mich. App. 234 - Timko v. Oakwood Custom Coating, Inc (2001)
2 federal appellate · 28 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.
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is not enough for an appellant in his brief simply to announce a position or assert an error and then leave it up to this Court to discover and rationalize the basis for his claims, or unravel and elaborate for him his arguments, and then search for authority either to sustain or reject his position. The appellant himself must first adequately prime the pump; only then does the appellate well begin to flow.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“[f]ailure to brief a question on appeal is tantamount to abandoning it”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.