Mitchell v. Thomas’s Empirical Analysis
1932
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently June 1986
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 16 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 City of Rochester v. . Campbell · 10 E.H. Smith 354 - Trustees of the Village of Canandaigua v. Foster · Jennings v. . Van Schaick · Irvine v. . Wood · McLaughlin v. Kelly
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A motion for a new trial was not made, and the trial judge was not given an opportunity to pass upon this feature of the case. If he had been asked to reduce the amount of the verdict, he might have done so. We have no substantial basis for changing it.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“a tenant in possession is, for all practical purposes, the owner of the property,”
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.