United States v. Mitchell’s Empirical Analysis
1 F.3d 235 · 1993
Citation profile
67 federal appellate · 1 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 135 later decisions — most recently April 2024 · most notably United States v. Alerre (2005), United States v. Baptiste (2010)
67 federal appellate · 1 district · 8 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 Kotteakos v. United States · Delaware v. Van Arsdall · Berger v. United States · United States v. Young · United States v. Frady
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 135 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) the degree to which the prosecutor’s remarks have a tendency to mislead the jury and to prejudice the accused; (2) whether the remarks were isolated or extensive; (3) absent the remarks, the strength of competent proof introduced to establish the guilt of the accused; and (4) whether the comments were deliberately placed before the jury to divert attention to extraneous matters.”
17 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'undermine the fundamental fairness of the trial and contribute to a miscarriage of justice.'”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'miscarriage of justice would otherwise result.'”
8 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.