United States v. Mitchell’s Empirical Analysis
518 F.3d 740 · 2008
Citation profile
38 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 150 later decisions — most recently July 2024 · most notably United States v. Urutyan (2009), Douglas v. Workman (2009)
38 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 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
Applies 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 28 U.S.C. § 2107 · 28 U.S.C. § 2243 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Steel Co. v. Citizens for a Better Environment · Link v. Wabash Railroad · Pioneer Investment Services Company v. Brunswick Associates Limited Partnership · Bowles v. Russell · United States v. Robinson
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 150 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“might be appropriate in special circumstances”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[s]ua sponte consideration of exhaustion of state remedies ... is explicitly permitted by Supreme Court precedent.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“all circuits to consider this issue have held so explicitly”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.