State v. Mitchell’s Empirical Analysis
1948
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently April 2022
10 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 Proper v. State · Grabowski v. State
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Defendant also contends that there was error on the trial by the introduction of Shirley’s testimony as to similar acts of such unlawful misconduct by defendant in relation to her at other times. “The admission of that testimony did not constitute error. Evidence as to such other acts of indecent familiarity between defendant and Shirley was clearly admissible.----””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Seaburg“Upon our review of the entire record it is evident that it was fully within the. province of the jury to consider [the prosecutrix’] testimony credible and sufficient to establish that on the occasions charged in the information ■the defendant did commit the criminal acts testified to by her, even though she could not remember the exact date of each occasion. . . .”
1 later decision 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.