State v. Mitchell’s Empirical Analysis
1907
Citation profile
35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently November 1970 · most notably State v. Dreher (1928), State v. Clifton (1965)
35 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 State v. Griggsby · State v. High · Marshall v. Parish of Morehouse · State v. Dowdell
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In the instant case the common practice of drawing the names of grand jurors from a box was followed. This practice is, however, contrary to the letter of the statute, which requires such drawing to be from the envelope. There is no good reason why this provision of law should not he observed and enforced in the district courts throughout the state.” (Italics ours.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Kifer““There is no such requirement as to petit jurors who are called upon to determine the question of the innocence or guilt of the accused.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Montgomery
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.