Mitchell v. Ellis’s Empirical Analysis
1963
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently August 2004
4 federal appellate · 20 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 Galveston, Harrisburg & San Antonio Railway Co. v. Currie · Southwest Dairy Products Co. v. Defrates · Houston News Co. v. Shavers · Hudiburgh v. Palvic · Bresnan v. Republic Supply Co.
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““By the term ‘while he was engaged in his occupation’ as used in this charge, is meant acts of every kind and character having to do with and originating in the work, business or trades of the employer, done by an employee while engaged in or about the furtherance of the affairs of the business of the employer, whether upon the employer’s premises or elsewhere, and which act is done for the accomplishment of the object for which he is employed.””
5 later decisions 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.