United States v. Mitchell’s Empirical Analysis
565 F.3d 1347 · 2009
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 2 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently June 2025 · most notably United States v. Stabile (2011), United States v. Burgess (2009)
14 federal appellate · 2 district · 8 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 18 U.S.C. § 2252A (§ 101 of the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996)
Relies on Chambers v. Maroney · Texas v. Brown · United States v. Jacobsen · Soldal v. Cook County · State v. Rupnick
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[c]omputers are relied upon heavily for personal and business use”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“home, capable of holding a universe of private information.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“if the assistance of another law enforcement officer had been sought[;] .... if some overriding circumstances arose, necessitating the diversion of law enforcement personnel to another case[; or if] .... the resources of law enforcement [we]re simply overwhelmed by the nature of a particular investigation.”
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.