State v. Mitchell’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 123 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 131 later decisions — most recently July 2018 · most notably State v. Preciose (1992), State v. Marshall (1997)
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 123 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 McCarthy v. United States · In re Disbarment of Sacco · 111 S. Ct. 425 - Insurance Co. of Pennsylvania v. Ben Cooper, Inc. · Kokkonen v. Democratic National Committee Chairman · Viviano v. CBS, INC.
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 131 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A petition to correct an illegal sentence may be filed at any time. No other petition shall be filed pursuant to this rule more than 5 years after rendition of the judgment or sentence sought to be attacked unless it alleges facts showing that the delay beyond said time was due to defendant's excusable neglect.”
32 later decisions 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.