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United States v. Mitchell’s Empirical Analysis

652 F.3d 387 · 2011

Citation profile

58
cited by 58 later decisions
1
cited 1 times by the Supreme Court
10
states following
July 2025
most recently cited

11 federal appellate · 2 district · 21 state decisions

Relationships

Applies 18 U.S.C. § 3142 (Bail Reform Act of 1984) · 18 U.S.C. § 3231 · 18 U.S.C. § 3731 · 18 U.S.C. § 3742 · 21 U.S.C. § 846 (§ 406 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 42 U.S.C. § 14132 (§ 210304 of the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994) · 42 U.S.C. § 14135

Relies on Terry v. Ohio · Cohen v. Beneficial Industrial Loan Corp. · Bell v. Wolfish · Chimel v. California · Rakas v. Illinois

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

  1. “does not contend that a law is unconstitutional as written but that its application to a particular person under particular circumstances deprived that person of a constitutional right.”
    5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “is the most difficult challenge to mount successfully,”
    3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
  3. “To the extent that DNA profiling assists the Government in accurate criminal investigations and prosecutions (both of which are dependent on accurately identifying the suspect), it is in the Government's interest to have this information as soon as possible.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent

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.