Rose v. Mitchell’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
374 federal appellate · 54 district · 424 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,221 later decisions (81 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2024 · most notably Batson v. Kentucky (1986), United States v. Leon (1984)
374 federal appellate · 54 district · 424 state decisions — followed in 36 states
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.
Appellate journey
reviewedMitchell v. Rose (from Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 243 · 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · Terry v. Ohio · Schneckloth v. Bustamonte · In the Matter of Samuel Winship · Younger v. Harris
Cited together with Castaneda v. Partida · Alexander v. Louisiana · Batson v. Kentucky · Taylor v. Louisiana · Swain v. State of Alabama
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 1,221 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Discrimination on the basis of race, odious in all aspects, is especially pernicious in the administration of justice.”
28 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“[I]n order to show that an equal protection violation has occurred in the context of grand jury selection, the defendant must show that the procedure employed resulted in substantial underrepresentation of his race or of the identifiable group to which he belongs.”
27 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“assume[d] without deciding that discrimination with regard to the selection of only the foreman requires that a subsequent conviction be set aside, just as if the discrimination ... had tainted the selection of the entire grand jury venire,”
13 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.