Clark v. Mitchell’s Empirical Analysis
1877
Citation profile
1 district · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently March 1912
1 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 Calder et Wife, v. Bull et Wife. · Trustees of Dartmouth College v. Woodward · Dodge v. Woolsey · Mayor v. Cooper · Mitchell v. Harmony
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is entirely correct in assuming that a legislative enactment is not necessarily the law of the land. The words ‘by the law of the. land,’ as used in the constitution, do not mean a statute passed for the purpose of working the wrong. That construction would render the restriction absolutely nugatory, and turn this part of the constitution into mere nonsense.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Meyers v. Shields““By the ‘law of the land’ is meant the ‘general law,’ which hears before it condemns; which proceeds upon inquiry, and renders judgment only on trial.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Meyers v. Shields
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.