Mitchell v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
143 F.2d 953 · 1944
Citation profile
35 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently March 1999 · most notably Knowles v. United States (1955), Taylor v. United States (1956)
35 federal appellate ·
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 United States v. Behrman · Nigro v. United States · Webb v. United States · C. M. Spring Drug Co. v. United States · Graham v. United States
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.
““All the government was required to do was to prove that the record was false. To illustrate: If the government proved that appellant purchased 50,000 grains of morphine and that his dispensation record showed that he [had] dispensed only 20,000 grains, it would have proved its case.””
1 later decision 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.