United States v. Mitchell’s Empirical Analysis
602 F.2d 636 · 1979
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently June 2015
6 federal appellate · 2 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. § 2421 (White-Slave Traffic Act of 1910 (Mann Act))
Relies on Lyles v. United States
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The testimony taken upon a hearing, with the added safeguards of examination and cross-examination of the witnesses, ... as well as the elaboration of [the witnesses’] testimony . . . and [their] personal demeanor and appearance, may show more clearly whether there is or is not credible evidence discovered since the trial which should call for the granting of the appellant’s motion for new trial. . . . Under all of the facts and circumstances of the case, including the requests of the parties, we think that the [lower] court certainly, and perhaps this Court also, will be in better position to exercise its functions if the evidence is fully developed upon a hearing.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Unwin“infused a doubt into the finding of appellant's guilt....”
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.