Mitchell v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

17 state decisions

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.

1. “When the evidence at a suppression hearing is uncontroverted and the credibility of witnesses is not in question, we conduct a de novo review of the trial court's application of the law to the undisputed facts.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. The State v. Wright. · 343 Ga. App. 71 - SUGGS v. the STATE.

2. “This means that the reviewing court generally must accept the trial court's findings as to disputed facts unless they are clearly erroneous, although the reviewing court may also consider facts that definitively can be ascertained exclusively by reference to evidence that is uncontradicted and presents no questions of credibility, such as facts indisputably discernible from a videotape.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. MACMASTER v. the STATE.

3. “[a] field sobriety test appears to us to be an act more akin to a handwriting or voice exemplar than the physical removal of tangible evidence.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. City of Leawood v. Puccinelli