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← 580 SO2D 852 - Mitchell v. State

Mitchell v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1991

Citation profile

3
cited by 3 later decisions
2
states following
September 1997
most recently cited

3 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Schenberg v. Bond · Harris v. California · 408 So. 2d 1024 - Jent v. State · Dickerson v. Alabama

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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “so critical a witness to appellant's identity as the accused robber that to deny appellant an opportunity to present that testimony to the jury was, under the circumstances of this case, a palpable abuse of discretion.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage

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.