Mitchell v. Mitchell’s Empirical Analysis
1891
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 85 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 91 later decisions — most recently February 1981 · most notably Bruni v. Vidaurri (1942), Carl v. Settegast (1922)
2 federal appellate · 85 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 91 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a party to a suit or proceeding, or who is interested in the issue to be tried”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Scott v. McKibban“confidential communications between husband and wife,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lanham v. Lanham
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.