United States v. Mitchell’s Empirical Analysis
18 F.3d 1355 · 1994
Citation profile
48 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 60 later decisions — most recently March 2017 · most notably Sones v. Hargett (1995), United States v. Allen (1994)
48 federal appellate · 1 district · 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 21 U.S.C. § 846 (§ 406 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 851 (§ 411 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 28 U.S.C. § 991
Relies on Boykin v. Alabama · Gideon v. Wainwright · United States v. Tucker · Mistretta v. United States · Yakus 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 60 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“that is presumptively void - that is a conviction lacking constitutionally guaranteed procedures plainly detectable from a facial examination of the record,”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“when the prior conviction is 'presumptively void,' that is, 'plainly detectable from a facial examination of the record.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“except for those challenges that manifest, from a facial review of the record, a presumptively void prior conviction.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.