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← 118 SO3D 295 - Mitchell v. State

Mitchell v. State’s Empirical Analysis

2013

Citation profile

3
cited by 3 later decisions
1
states following
December 2018
most recently cited

3 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on 491 So. 2d 1129 - State v. DiGuilio · 719 So. 2d 1197 - Gore v. State · 29 So. 3d 1086 - Ventura v. State · 605 So. 2d 974 - Clewis v. State · 547 So. 2d 680 - Bass v. State

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.

  1. “The standard for a criminal conviction is not which side is more believable, but whether, taking all the evidence into consideration, the State has proven every essential element of the crime beyond a reasonable doubt. For that reason, it is error for a prosecutor to make statements that shift the burden of proof and invite the jury to convict the defendant for some reason other than that the State has proved its case beyond a reasonable doubt.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage

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.