Mitchell v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
17
cited by 17 later decisions
1
states following
October 1986
most recently cited
17 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 109 Ill. App. 3d 967 - In Re Marriage of Bentivenga · Williams v. State · Nelson v. State · Hoskins v. State · Biggerstaff 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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[a] directed verdict can be issued only where there is a total lack of evidence on some essential issue or where there is no conflict in the evidence and it is susceptible only to an inference in favor of the accused.” Mitchell v. State, (1978) Ind., 376 N.E.2d 473, 475 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Faught 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.