Mitchell v. Keith’s Empirical Analysis
752 F.2d 385 · 1985
Citation profile
41 federal appellate · 6 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 71 later decisions — most recently July 2013 · most notably Tomka v. Seiler Corp. (1995), Merrick v. Farmers Insurance Group (1990)
41 federal appellate · 6 district · 7 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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1981 (Civil Rights Act of 1866) · 42 U.S.C. § 1988
Relies on Johnson v. Railway Express Agency, Inc. · White v. New Hampshire Department of Employment Security · Arizona v. Manypenny · Greene v. Massey · Boston Firefighters Union, Local 718 v. Boston Chapter, NAACP
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 71 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The jurisdiction ... conferred ... for the protection of all persons in the United States in their civil rights, and for their vindication, shall be exercised and enforced in conformity with the laws of the United States, so far as such laws are suitable to carry the same into effect; but in all cases where they are not adapted to the object, or are deficient in the provisions necessary to furnish suitable remedies ... the common law ... shall be extended to and govern the ... disposition of the cause.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[w]here federal laws are deficient in the provisions necessary to furnish suitable remedies,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“There is no error in a refusal to give incorrect or misleading instructions.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. McGonigle v. Combs
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.