State v. Mitchell’s Empirical Analysis
1963
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently June 2004
24 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 State v. Cooper · State v. Guffey · State v. Hill · State v. Swaringen · State v. Sultan.
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.
““A reading of the challenged part of the charge leads to the unescapable conclusion that the only controverted fact which was left to the jury to determine was whether defendant was the driver of the Ford automobile which the State’s evidence shows contained 30 gallons of non-tax-paid whisky. This expression of opinion or assumption by the trial court that all the essential elements of the offenses charged in the three counts, which were controverted and put in issue by defendant’s plea of not guilty, were not challenged and not denied by the defendant, except who was driving the Ford automobile which the State’s evidence shows contained 30 gallons of non-tax-paid whisky, is prejudicial error.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““The State had the burden of establishing beyond a reasonable doubt each element of the crime. Proof must be made without intimation or suggestion from the court that the controverted facts have or have not been established. G.S. 1-180. “The assumption by the court that any fact controverted by a plea of not guilty has been established is prejudicial error.” (Citing numerous authorities.)”
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.