United States v. Mitchell’s Empirical Analysis
2004
Citation profile
3
cited by 3 later decisions
1
cited 1 times by the Supreme Court
March 2006
most recently cited
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 922 (Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act)
Relies on United States v. Pin Yen Yang · United States v. Ruffin · United States v. Kuhn · United States v. Barber · United States v. Tarantola
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When [the defendant] declined a plea bargain in state court, his case was referred to the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Michigan pursuant to Project Safe Neighborhoods, a federal-state cooperative program aimed at reducing gun violence.”
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.