Mitchell v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently March 2001
5 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 110 So. 2d 654 - Williams v. State · 117 So. 2d 473 - Williams v. State · Justus v. State · 253 So. 2d 907 - Reyes v. State · 443 So. 2d 381 - Warren 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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(2) Other Crimes, Wrongs, or Acts (a) Similar fact, evidence or other crimes, wrongs, or acts is admissible when relevant to prove a material fact and issue, such as proof of motive, opportunity, intent, preparation, plan, knowledge, identity, or absence of mistake or accident, but it is inadmissible when the evidence is relevant solely to prove bad character or propensity.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“an individual suffering from the infirmities of aging, and in so doing, cause[ ] great bodily harm, permanent disfigurement or permanent disability....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“had a special reason to have had it attention drawn to the day-to-day management and care of”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.