Mitchell v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently September 2018 · most notably Wofford v. State (1997), State v. Horn (2004)
38 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 Illinois v. Gates · Wong Sun v. United States · Katz v. United States · Aguilar v. Texas · Brinegar v. United States
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Exigent circumstances are those requiring immediate aid or action, and, while there is no definite list of what constitutes exigent circumstances, several established examples include the risk of removal or destruction of evidence, danger to the lives of police officers or others, and the hot pursuit of a suspect.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Mann v. State“Regardless of what [the police officer] personally knew, he is charged with the collective knowledge of the police department at the time [of the emergency aid search].”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lum v. Koles“The identity of the caller was anonymous; one could only speculate as to the reliability of the caller.”
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.