Rude v. Mitchell’s Empirical Analysis
1888
Citation profile
40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently December 2011 · most notably Williams v. Chicago, Santa Fe & California Railway Co. (1892), Moore v. H. Gaus & Sons Manufacturing Co. (1892)
40 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 Yeats v. Ballentine · Coe v. Ritter · Hilliker v. Francisco · McWilliams v. Allan · Marsh v. Richards
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““1882, December 1, for alteration and additions, to buildings numbers 210 and 212, North Third street, as per plans and specifications, $22,287.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Grace v. Nesbitt
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.