Mitchell v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1879
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently October 1940
11 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.
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““When the witness has a permanent and long-continued residence in the community in which it is attempted to impeach him, the evidence of bad character, at a time long anterior, should not be admitted until a basis is laid by other proof tending to show that the character [of the witness] is then bad.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.