Mitchell v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
31
cited by 31 later decisions
2
states following
March 1986
most recently cited
12 federal appellate · 4 district · 13 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on United States v. Wade · Witherspoon v. Illinois · Furman v. Georgia · Gilbert v. California · Kirby v. Illinois
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“done voluntarily, knowingly, and intelligently.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.