United States v. Mitchell’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
872 federal appellate · 852 district · 34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5,323 later decisions (43 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2025 · most notably Federal Deposit Insurance v. Meyer (1994), Mertens v. Hewitt Associates (1993)
872 federal appellate · 852 district · 34 state decisions — followed in 10 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 United States v. Testan · United States v. Sherwood · Dalehite v. United States · Touche Ross & Co. v. Redington
Cited together with United States v. Testan · United States v. Mitchell · United States v. Sherwood · United States v. King · United States v. White Mountain Apache Tribe
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 5,323 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is axiomatic that the United States may not be sued without its consent and that the existence of consent is a prerequisite for jurisdiction.”
127 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“can fairly be interpreted as mandating compensation by the Federal Government for the damage sustained.”
78 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“can fairly be interpreted as mandating compensation by the Federal Government for the damages sustained.”
29 later decisions 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.