United States v. Mitchell’s Empirical Analysis
502 F.3d 931 · 2007
Citation profile
44 federal appellate · 6 district · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 118 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2023 · most notably Nursing Home Pension Fund, Local 144 v. Oracle Corp. (2010), Johnson v. Williams (2013)
44 federal appellate · 6 district · 13 state decisions — followed in 10 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
reviewedthe decision below (from Arizona District Court)
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 1111 · 18 U.S.C. § 113 · 18 U.S.C. § 1152 · 18 U.S.C. § 1153 · 18 U.S.C. § 1513 · 18 U.S.C. § 2 · 18 U.S.C. § 2111 · 18 U.S.C. § 2119
Relies on Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Apprendi v. New Jersey · United States v. Olano · Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, Inc. · Batson v. Kentucky
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 118 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“all the aggravating factor or factors found to exist sufficiently outweigh all the mitigating factor or factors found to exist to justify a sentence of death.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“an opinion about what they thought the jury's verdict should be.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“ke[eps] the jury focused on relevant mitigating evidence.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.