Mitchell v. Jones’s Empirical Analysis
1943
Citation profile
4 district · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently June 2004
4 district · 12 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 Nikolich v. Slovenska Nardona Podporna Jednota · Pauls Valley Milling Co. v. Gabbert · Wiggins v. Jackson
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is well settled that a party must use reasonable diligence to mitigate the damages about to be suffered either from tort or breach of contract.”
1 later decision 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.