People v. Mitchell’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently July 2018 · most notably Mitchell v. Mason (2003), Kenneth Lee Baker v. General Motors Corporation,/appellant. in Re: General Motors Corporation. (2000)
9 federal appellate · 18 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 Strickland v. Washington · Cuyler v. Sullivan · Powell v. State of Alabama Patterson · McMann v. Richardson · United States v. Cronic
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“I have been locked up for 5 months and not once have my lawyer took time out to talk to me ... .3 times after I went to court my lawyer has told me that he would be over to talk to me, but never did.Every since my second month of being incarcerated I have had my mother go over to his office concerning an evidentiary hearing, she have been at his office many times, she has wrote many letters but he has never replied to her.... I know I’m charged for something I haven’t done, but I know that if I can’t express to Gerald K. Evelyn what happen on the night this incentdent oc-curd he will not know the best stradagy of what and how to fight this case... .For 5 months I have waited patiently, I have tryed every way I can to get him to talk to me, I am tired of being in the dark and knowing he’s in the dark.... So your honor Please take him off my case because he’s not representing me at all.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Well, from the very beginning, you know, Mr. Evelyn promised to talk with me. He has failed to talk with me on every occasion that he promised. He has failed to make any motions for me, and he’s failed to talk with my mother, which she has written many letters and calls, and went to his office, also, left word with his secretary. And he also showed up an hour late on my final conference and by him letting me know yesterday that he was going to come over and talk with me and by him failing to do that, I just, I just feel it’s just incompetent.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“cases in which the court or the state directly interferes with the attorney-client relationship by preventing counsel from rendering assistance.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Bass · People v. Shahideh
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.