United States v. Mitchell’s Empirical Analysis
58 F.3d 1221 · 1995
Citation profile
19 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently October 2018
19 federal appellate · 1 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. § 2255 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Chapman v. State of California · Boykin v. Alabama · Hill v. Lockhart · Brecht v. Abrahamson
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he test for reversal on appeal is `whether, looking at the total circumstances surrounding the plea, the defendant was informed of his or her rights.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Docket-bound district judges are not required to engage in a certain litany to be graded on appeal for the semantics chosen or omitted. However, district judges do have fundamental obligations of substance that go far beyond form under Rule 11. It is critically important not only to ensure that a defendant personally understands the penalties, including mandatory minimum penalties, but that a record is made to demonstrate that fact clearly.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“total circumstances surrounding the plea [demonstrate] that the defendant was informed of his rights and understood the consequences of his plea,”
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.