United States v. Mitchell’s Empirical Analysis
177 F.3d 236 · 1999
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently September 2019
7 federal appellate · 1 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 1071 · 18 U.S.C. § 3731
Relies on United States v. DiFrancesco · United States v. Martin Linen Supply Co. · United States v. Wilson · United States v. Silva · United States v. Stacey
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“prove beyond a reasonable doubt that (1) a federal warrant has been issued for the fugitive's arrest, (2) the harborer had knowledge that a warrant had been issued for the fugitive's arrest, (3) the defendant actually harbored or concealed the fugitive, and (4) the defendant intended to prevent the fugitive's discovery or arrest.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“view the evidence in the light most favorable to the government and inquire whether any rational trier of fact could find the essential elements of the crime beyond a reasonable doubt.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[B]ut, any physical act of providing assistance ... to aid the prisoner in avoiding detection and apprehension will make out a violation of section 1071.”
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.