Samples v. Mitchell’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently November 2017 · most notably CFRE, LLC v. Greenville County Assessor (2011), State v. Forrester (2001)
42 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 Gainesville Utilities Department v. Florida Power Corp. · King v. Fielder · Diaz v. Southern Drilling Corp. · Baughman v. American Telephone & Telegraph Co. · 193 W. Va. 229 - McDougal v. McCammon
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“mandate full and fair disclosure to prevent a trial from becoming a guessing game or one of ambush for either party.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“A failure to exercise discretion amounts to an abuse of that discretion.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Hawes
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.