Mitchell v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
88 U.S. 350 · 1874
Citation profile
85 federal appellate · 54 district · 66 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 323 later decisions (15 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2026 · most notably State of Texas v. State of Florida (1939), Margaret Williamson v. Katherine Osenton (1914)
85 federal appellate · 54 district · 66 state decisions — followed in 22 states
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 323 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] domicile once acquired is presumed to continue until it is shown to have been changed.”
16 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Among the circumstances usually relied upon to establish the animus manendi are declarations of the party, the exercise of political rights, the payment of personal taxes, a house of residence, and a place of business.””
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'[a] residence at a particular place accompanied with positive or presumptive proof of an intention to remain there for an unlimited time.'”
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.