480 So. 2d 1254 - Mitchell v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently February 2018 · most notably 577 So. 2d 474 - Kuenzel v. State (1990), Dill v. State (1991)
26 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 Ungar v. Sarafite · Logarusic v. United States · California v. Civil Aeronautics Board · Hudson v. Palmer · Hazra v. United States
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he statement of counsel must be made as of fact unsupported by evidence, and `must be pertinent to the issue, or its natural tendency must be to influence the finding of the jury.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[W]ide latitude is given the State's prosecutors when a response is made during closing argument to an argument previously made by opposing counsel.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Dill v. State · Bryant v. State“'Prosecutorial statements which are merely trivial and nonprejudicial are not grounds for error.' Mitchell v. State , 480 So.2d 1254 , 1257-58 (Ala. Crim. App. 1985).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Creque v. State
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.