State v. Mitchell’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently May 2022 · most notably State v. Gould (2001), State v. Ackward (2006)
1 federal appellate · 26 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 Evans v. United States · State v. Prouse · State v. Lashley · State v. Alderson · State v. Cameron & Bentley
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'[f]orcible felony' includes any treason, murder, voluntary manslaughter, rape, robbery, burglary, arson, kidnapping, aggravated battery, aggravated sodomy and any other felony which involves the use or threat of physical force or violence against any person.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“showed the threat or use of physical force or violence against a person.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“self-defense is not available in felony-murder cases”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Milo
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.