Mitchell v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
141 F.3d 8 · 1998
Citation profile
38 federal appellate · 29 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 90 later decisions — most recently June 2023 · most notably United States v. LiCausi (1999), Blue Cross Blue Shield v. AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP (2009)
38 federal appellate · 29 district · 5 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 Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, Inc. · Anderson v. City of Bessemer City · General Electric Co. v. Joiner · Cumpiano v. Banco Santander Puerto Rico · Brune v. Belinkoff
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 90 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) the evidence has been discovered since the trial; (2) the evidence could not by due diligence have been discovered earlier by the movant; (3) the evidence is not merely cumulative or impeaching; and (4) the evidence is of such a nature that it would probably change the result were a new trial to be granted.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“any tendency to make the existence of any fact that is of consequence to the determination of the action more probable or less probable than it would be without the evidence.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“determine whether the putative expert is qualified by knowledge, skill, experience, training, or education,”
3 later decisions 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.