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State v. Mitchell’s Empirical Analysis

2012

Citation profile

24
cited by 24 later decisions
1
states following
March 2025
most recently cited

24 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Whitlow v. State · State v. Finley · State v. Gunderson · State v. Gallagher

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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “(1) show[s] that the claimed error implicates a fundamental right and (2) ‘firmly convince[s]’ this Court that failure to review the claimed error would result in a manifest miscarriage of justice, leave unsettled the question of the fundamental fairness of the trial or proceedings, or compromise the integrity of the judicial process.”
    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.