Lippincott v. Mitchell’s Empirical Analysis
94 U.S. 767 · 1876
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 3 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 1987
7 federal appellate · 3 district · 5 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 Olcott v. Bynum · Short v. Battle · Gunn v. Samuel's Adm'r · Molton v. Martin
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.
““This construction is a rule of property of the state, and we are as much bound by it as if it were a part of the statute. It is our duty to apply the law of the state as if we wore sitting there as a local court, and this case were before us as such a tribunal.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. James v. Gray · Yocum v. Parker““Where the intent to exclude the marital rights of the husband is doubtful or equivocal, or rests on speculation, the statute intervenes and fixes the character of the estate.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. James v. Gray
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.