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Mitchell v. State’s Empirical Analysis

2000

Citation profile

80
cited by 80 later decisions
2
states following
November 2023
most recently cited

79 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 80 later decisions — most recently November 2023 · most notably Guyton v. State (2002), Robinson v. State (2004)

79 state decisions

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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 Richardson v. State · United States Department of State v. Ray · Joyner v. State · Kennedy v. State · Timberlake v. State

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

  1. “an error must be so prejudicial to the rights of the defendant as to make a fair trial impossible.”
    14 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. J.M. v. M.A. · Hornbostel v. State
  2. “[I]t is not within our province to attempt to interpret the thought process of the jury in arriving at their verdiet. ... The reason for allowing the jury to render verdicts, that are seemingly inconsistent, inheres within our system of jurisprudence. The jurors are the triers of fact, and in performing this function, they may attach whatever weight and credibility to the evidence as they believe is warranted.”
    4 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. Owsley v. State · Slate v. State
  3. “is appropriate where the sentence is erroneous on its face and that facial error occurs when the sentence violates express statutory authority.”
    4 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. Hatchett v. State · White v. State

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.