Mitchell v. Mason’s Empirical Analysis
1918
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently June 2008
21 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 Schroeder v. Young · Sowards v. Pritchett · Mechanics' Savings & Building Loan Ass'n v. O'Conner · Pattison v. Josselyn · Mitchell v. Mason
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“- “Inadequacy of price in connection with'other circum.stánces having a tendency to cause such inadequacy result ing in injury is considered sufficient grounds to set aside the sale, especially if the circumstances result from the mistake of one whose duty it is under the decree to make sale of the property, yet the Chancellor has a large discretion which will only be interfered with by the appellate court in a clear case of injustice. See Sowards v. Pritchett, 37 Ill. 517 ; Glenn v. Clapp, 11 Gill & J. (Md.) 1; Pattison v. Joselyn, 43 Miss. 373 ; Eberhart v. Gilchrist, 11 N. J. Eq. (3 Stockton) 167; Schroeder v. Young, 161 U. S. 334 ; 16 Sup. Ct. Rep. 512; Mechanics Saving & Building Loan Ass’n v. O’Conner, 29 Ohio St. 651 ; Young v. Teague, Bailey’s Eq. (S. C.) 13. “There is no question as to the regularity of the sale, such as lack of published notice, improper time, place or terms of sale, nor lack of the jurisdiction of the court, nor authority of the Special Master to sell, and it appears that the sale was duly confirmed by order of the court the following day.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“"Upon a motion of this kind depending for its effectiveness upon ministerial errors which have not been brought to the attention of the court, no matter what the reason for delay, for many years afterwards, the court should require a very high degree of clearness and certainty in proof in every particular." (emphasis supplied)”
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.