Mitcheson v. Harris’s Empirical Analysis
955 F.2d 235 · 1992
Citation profile
27 federal appellate · 20 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 118 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2019 · most notably Wilton v. Seven Falls Co. (1995), Bankers Trust Company v. Old Republic Insurance Company (1992)
27 federal appellate · 20 district · 3 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 Erie Co v. Tompkins · United Mine Workers of America v. Gibbs · Colorado River Water Conservation District v. United States · Pennhurst State School and Hospital v. Halderman · Railroad Commission v. Pullman Co.
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 118 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a]bsent a strong countervailing federal interest, the federal court should not elbow its way into this controversy to render what may be an uncertain and ephemeral interpretation of state law.”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““[A] federal court should analyze whether its resolution of the declaratory action will settle all aspects of the legal controversy. This court has long recognized that it makes no sense as a matter of judicial economy for a federal court to entertain a declaratory action when the result would be to ‘try a controversy piecemeal, or to try particular issues without settling the entire controversy.’ ” Id.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“"In a case of actual controversy within its jurisdiction ... any court of the United States, upon the filing of an appropriate pleading, may declare the rights and other legal relations of any interested party seeking such declaration, whether or not further relief is or could be sought.” 28 U.S.C. § 2201 (a) (emphasis added).”
5 later decisions 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.