Mitchell v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently March 2017 · most notably 564 So. 2d 1060 - Porter v. State (1990), 674 So. 2d 96 - Geralds v. State (1996)
31 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 Wainwright v. Witt · Caldwell v. Mississippi · United States Accardi v. Shaughnessy · Adams v. Texas · Andrijevic v. Kelleran
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] verdict cannot be subsequently impeached by conduct which inheres in the verdict and relates to the jury's deliberations.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“rage is inconsistent with the premeditated intent to kill someone,”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[i]f he [one of the men] ain't dead, he wished he was dead.”
1 later decision 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.