Mitchell v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently February 2013
15 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 Campbell v. State · 169 Tex. Crim. 71 - Harris v. State · Hilton v. State · Mitchell v. State
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Article 42.12, Vernon’s Ann.C.C.P., Sec. 8, provides that ‘after a hearing’ the court ‘may either continue or revoke the probation’ but this court has never held that it was absolutely mandatory that the court hear evidence where at such hearing the defendant states to the court that the allegations of the motion to revoke are ‘true’, or that he is ‘guilty’ as alleged or that he does not desire to contest the motion (nolo contendere), particularly where he is represented by counsel, has been served with a copy of the motion and indicates to the court he understands the allegations. “Undoubtedly it is by far the safer practice to always hear evidence regardless of the plea. Many a later question may be avoided. Where the plea is ‘true’ or ‘guilty’ the evidence is often stipulated, or the state’s testimony on direct examination on a former trial may be offered by agreement or the defendant may take the witness stand and make a judicial confession.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ford 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.