State v. Mitchell’s Empirical Analysis
1957
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently March 1983
23 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 State v. Osburn · State v. Fouts · State v. Murphy · State v. Brown · State v. Haught
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““When considering on appeal the sufficiency of circumstantial evidence to sustain conviction of crime, the question before this court is not whether the evidence is incompatible with any reasonable hypothesis except guilt. That .was a question for the jury and the trial court, and the function of this court is limited to ascertaining whether there was basis in the evidence .for a reasonable inference of guilt.” (Syl. ¶ 1.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Russell
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.