Starr v. Mitchell’s Empirical Analysis
1951
Citation profile
31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently May 1972 · most notably Swon v. Huddleston (1955), Hynes v. Risch (1951)
31 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 Weller v. Hayes Truck Lines · Woods v. Cantrell · Witte v. Storm · Cordia v. Matthes.
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In the review of the instant case, an equitable action, the appellate court determines the cause de novo, weighing the evidence introduced upon the factual issues; but the appellate court usually defers to the findings of the trial chancellor where there was conflicting verbal testimony involving the judging of the credibility of the witnesses who appeared before him.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Collins v. Shive
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.