United States v. Mitchell’s Empirical Analysis
31 F.3d 271 · 1994
Citation profile
65 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 88 later decisions — most recently May 2016 · most notably United States v. Posada-Rios (1998), United States of America v. Michael Brett Jacquinot (2001)
65 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 924 · 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 846 (§ 406 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Illinois v. Gates · Jones v. United States · Duren v. Missouri · Cities of Charlottesville v. Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors of Columbia Gas Transmission Corp. · Carolco Television Inc. v. National Broadcasting Co.
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 88 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Government may satisfy its burden of proving a connection between the weapon and the offense by showing that the weapon was found in the same location where drugs or drug paraphernalia are stored”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“specific and compelling prejudice against which the district court could not provide adequate protection, and that this prejudice resulted in an unfair trial.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“a witness-accomplice's guilty plea may be admitted into evidence if it serves a legitimate purpose and a proper limiting instruction is given.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.