State v. Mitchell’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently July 2020
6 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 · Southern Railway Co. v. Seaboard Allied Milling Corp. · State v. Decker · United States v. Dolan · State v. Knutson
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he entirety of the evidence, when viewed in the light most favorable to the State, is sufficient to support the jury's inference that the substance delivered by [the defendant] was methamphetamine.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“allows further inference that he had indeed delivered methamphetamine to [the confidential informant] and was anxious to recover and dispose of it when he became aware of [the informant's] body wire.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[c]hemical analysis of a substance remains the preferable and the most reliable evidence of its identity, and the sufficiency of less direct evidence must be evaluated on a case-by-case basis.”
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.