Mitchell v. Donovan’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
146 federal appellate · 27 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 320 later decisions (34 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2018 · most notably Roe v. Wade (1973), Steffel v. Thompson (1974)
146 federal appellate · 27 district ·
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 28 U.S.C. § 1253 · 28 U.S.C. § 2201 · 28 U.S.C. § 2281 · 50 U.S.C. § 841 (Communist Control Act of 1954)
Relies on Kennedy v. Mendoza-Martinez · Zwickler v. Koota · Phillips v. United States · Swift & Co. v. Wickham · H. K. Porter Co. v. National Labor Relations Board
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 320 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Except as otherwise provided by law, any party may appeal to the Supreme Court from an order granting or denying, after notice and hearing, an interlocutory or permanent injunction in any civil action, suit or proceeding required by any Act of Congress to be heard and determined by a district court of three judges.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(i)t would hardly be faithful to . . . a (literal) construction to read the statutory term 'injunction' as meaning 'declaratory judgment.'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The judgment appealed from does not include an order granting or denying an interlocutory or permanent injunction and is therefore not appealable to this Court under 28 U.S.C. Sec. 1253.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.