Mitchell v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2008
Citation profile
36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently August 2025 · most notably State v. Goff (2010), State v. Kleser (2010)
36 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 Jackson v. Virginia · Estelle v. Smith · Murphy v. Waterfront Commission of New York Harbor · Pope v. United States · United States v. Albright
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“any rational trier of fact could have found the essential elements of the crime beyond a reasonable doubt.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“This court will not reweigh the evidence or evaluate the credibility of witnesses because that is the responsibility of the trier of fact.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Dickey v. State · Clancy v. State“When a defendant asserts the insanity defense and introduces supporting psychiatric testimony, his silence may deprive the State of the only effective means it has of controverting his proof on an issue that he interjected into the case.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Kleser
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.