Mitchell v. Hercules Incorporated’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently April 1998
4 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1441 · 29 U.S.C. § 159 (§ 9 of the National Labor Relations Act) · 29 U.S.C. § 173 (§ 203 of the Labor Management Relations Act of 1947 (Taft-Hartley Act)) · 29 U.S.C. § 185 (§ 301 of the Labor Management Relations Act of 1947 (Taft-Hartley Act))
Relies on United Steelworkers of America v. Enterprise Wheel and Car Corp · Vaca v. Sipes · Hines v. Anchor Motor Freight, Inc. · Republic Steel Corp. v. Maddox · Ford Motor Co v. Huffman International Union United Automobile Aircraft and Agricultural Implementworkers of America Ci
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“perfunctory.” Mitchell v. Hercules Inc., 410 F.Supp. 560, 568 (S.D.Ga.1976), ("to do it merely to get through or rid of the matter; as a matter of routine and for form’s sake only; without interest or zeal.”
2 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.