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← 282 Ga. 416 - Mitchell v. State

Mitchell v. State’s Empirical Analysis

2007

Citation profile

21
cited by 21 later decisions
1
states following
October 2019
most recently cited

21 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Jackson v. Virginia · Jones v. State · State v. Eubanks · Dickens 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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. ““[decisions on requests to charge involve trial tactics to which we must afford substantial latitude, and ‘they provide no grounds for reversal unless such tactical decisions are so patently unreasonable that no competent attorney would have chosen them.’ . . . (Cit.)” [Cit.]”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “Neither appellant has shown how he was misled to his prejudice by any alleged imperfection in the indictment and we can discern no prejudice in either record. Any error in failing to try appellants upon a”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “indictment was, thus, manifestly harmless.”
    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.