State v. Mills’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 2 district · 1,805 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,818 later decisions — most recently March 2026 · most notably State v. Burnside (2003), State v. Madrigal (2000)
5 federal appellate · 2 district · 1,805 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 Strickland v. Washington · Jackson v. Virginia · Brady v. State of Maryland · Illinois v. Gates · Carroll v. United States
Cited together with State v. Burnside · State v. Fanning · Terry v. Ohio · Strickland v. Washington · 124 Ohio App. 3d 706 - State v. McNamara
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 1,818 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“At a suppression hearing, the evaluation of evidence and the credibility of witnesses are issues for the trier of fact.”
16 later decisions quote this exact passage“A defendant does not state a claim for ineffective assistance of counsel unless his attorney acted unreasonably given the facts of the case, and the unreasonable conduct was prejudicial to the defense.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“allows police to conduct a warrantless search of a vehicle if there is probable cause to believe that the vehicle contains contraband and exigent circumstances necessitate a search or seizure.”
7 later decisions 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.