Mitchell v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently May 2021
16 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 North Carolina v. Pearce · Berkemer v. McCarty · Alabama v. Smith · Mathis v. United States · People v. Prettyman
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a sentencing court may not punish a defendant for exercising his constitutional rights,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a conviction for attempted murder will lie even if the defendant did not have the specific intent to kill provided the attempted murder was the natural and probable consequence of the aider and abettor's target crime.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Sharma v. State“Mlle defendant has the burden to provide evidence that the district court sentenced him vindictively”
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.