Mitchell v. Mitchell’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently July 2015
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 17 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 Textile Workers Union, Local No. 513 v. Brookside Mills, Inc. · Schoen v. J.C. Bradford & Co. · Lance Productions, Inc. v. Commerce Union Bank · Deas v. Deas · 28 Tenn. App. 296 - Lasater Lumber Co. v. Harding
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Loss of use of funds due is the necessary result of the failure to pay an obligation according to its terms. The usual means of compensating for this necessary result is the allowance of interest. Interest recovered in order to make the obligee whole is the relief usually sought, and the allowance of prejudg ment interest under such circumstances is familiar and almost commonplace.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“"Where damages, though the natural results of the act complained of, are not the necessary result of it, they are termed “special damages” which the law does not imply and which must be alleged in order that evidence on the subject may be admissible.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Story v. Lanier
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.