State v. Mitchell’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
125 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 127 later decisions — most recently March 2018 · most notably State v. Taylor (1998), State v. Reeves (1990)
125 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. James
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 127 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“No definite rule of law governs this finding; rather, the materiality and prejudicial character of the error must be determined from its relationship to the entire case.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Collins · State v. Brown“[R]eversal is not required unless appellant was prejudiced by the error.”
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.