State v. Mitchell’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
63 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 63 later decisions — most recently July 2013 · most notably State v. Quattlebaum (2000), State v. Johnson (1999)
63 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 Brady v. State of Maryland · Delaware v. Van Arsdall · State v. Von Dohlen · State v. Bell · State v. Smith
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 63 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“) (citations omitted). In Mitchell , the Supreme Court articulated the necessary showing required from an appellant who asserts an infringement on his right to meaningful cross examination: [A] criminal defendant states a violation of the Confrontation Clause by showing that he was prohibited from engaging in otherwise appropriate cross-examination designed to show a prototypical form of bias on the part of the witness, and thereby”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Grace · State v. Mizzell“Cross Examination A trial court's ruling on the proper scope of cross examination will not be disturbed absent a manifest abuse of discretion. State v. Mitchell, 330 S.C. 189 , 498 S.E.2d 642 (1998). This rule, however, is subject to the Sixth Amendment's guarantee of a defendant's right to”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Grace
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.