Mitchell v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2008
Citation profile
12
cited by 12 later decisions
1
states following
August 2015
most recently cited
12 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · Malcolm v. State · Patterson v. State · Tarvestad v. State · Whatley 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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The word is not technical or [a] word of art, the meaning of which would not be understood by people of ordinary experience and understanding. On the contrary, the term[ ] used [is an] ordinary term[ ] found in common usage and understood by people of common and ordinary experience.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Whitaker 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.