United States v. Mitchell-Hunter’s Empirical Analysis
663 F.3d 45 · 2011
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 4 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently January 2022
8 federal appellate · 4 district ·
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 46 U.S.C. § 70501 · 46 U.S.C. § 70502 · 46 U.S.C. § 70503 · 46 U.S.C. § 70504
Relies on Crawford v. Washington · Franks v. Delaware · California v. Green · Pennsylvania v. Ritchie · Barber v. Page
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]n all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right . . . to be confronted with the witnesses against him.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he MDLEA is derived from Congress' power to 'define and punish Piracies and Felonies committed on the high Seas'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“d[id] not point to a single case extending the right to confrontation beyond the context of trial”
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.