Mitchell v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2006
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently November 2020 · most notably Cuesta-Rodriguez v. State (2010), 2006 OK CR 46 - Stouffer v. State (2006)
2 federal appellate · 21 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 Brady v. State of Maryland · United States v. Booker · Apprendi v. New Jersey · Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, Inc. · Blakely v. Washington
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“an aggravating circumstance does not become 'overbroad' based upon the manner it is applied to particular cases.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. BOSSE v. STATE · BOSSE v. STATE“(1) there was another crime separate and distinct from the murder; and (2) that Mr. Brown committed the murder with the intent to avoid being arrested or prosecuted for that other crime.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“Relief will be granted on a prosecutorial misconduct claim only where the misconduct effectively deprives the defendant of a fair trial or a fair and reliable sentencing proceeding.”
2 later decisions 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.