Mitchell v. Jones’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 5 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on City of Houston v. Clear Creek Basin Authority · Montgomery v. Kennedy · Malooly Brothers, Inc. v. Napier · " MOORE" BURGER, INC. v. Phillips Petroleum Company · Delgado v. Burns
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“All actions brought under this subchap-ter must be commenced within two years after the date on which the false, misleading, or deceptive act or practice occurred or within two years after the consumer discovered or in the exercise of reasonable diligence should have discovered the occurrence of the false, misleading, or deceptive act or practice ...”
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.