Mitchell v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
55 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 55 later decisions — most recently July 2012 · most notably Clark v. State (1999), Pryor v. State (1977)
55 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 Schneckloth v. Bustamonte · Johnson v. Zerbst · Neil v. Biggers · Kirby v. Illinois · Henry v. State of Mississippi
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 55 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`Although a defendant is entitled to a thorough and sifting cross-examination of witnesses against him (Code Ann. § 38-1705 [OCGA § 24-9-64]), the scope of cross-examination is largely within the discretion of the trial court and will not be controlled by this court except for abuse of discretion.' Mitchell v. State, 236 Ga. 251, 256 ( 223 SE2d 650 ) (1976).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Williams v. State
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.