Mitchell v. Mitchell’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently January 2013
21 state decisions — followed in 12 states
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 70 Wis. 2d 115 - Taake v. Taake · Bubar v. Plant · 128 N.J. Super. 193 - Grossman v. Grossman · Beal v. Beal · Hazelwood v. Hazelwood
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Mrs. Mitchell’s cohabitation with her friend has no relevance except insofar as the arrangement actually affects the former wife’s financial circumstances____ In addition, even if the alimony did benefit her friend that fact would not prove that the former wife’s needs have decreased. For example, her friend benefits from her expenditures on heating fuel, but the cost to Mrs. Mitchell is the same as if she lived alone. Additional evidence is necessary to prove that Mrs. Mitchell does not need alimony.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Van Dyke v. Steinle
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.