Mitchell v. Mitchell’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently August 2025 · most notably Maryhew v. Yova (1984), 8 Ohio App. 3d 79 - Fancher v. Fancher (1982)
40 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 Mullane v. Central Hanover Bank & Trust Co. · Flick v. United States · Akron-Canton Regional Airport Authority v. Swinehart · In re Foreclosure of Liens for Delinquent Taxes · Castellano v. Kosydar
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Accordingly, certified mail service under Civ. R. 4.3(B)(1) is valid where the envelope containing the documents to be served is delivered to a person other than the defendant, at the defendant’s address. The Civil Rules do not require that delivery be restricted to the defendant * *”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“shall involve the clerk's depositing the summons and complaint in the United States mail as certified mail, return receipt requested.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[e]videnced by return receipt signed by any person.”
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.