Mitchell v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
6
cited by 6 later decisions
1
states following
March 2012
most recently cited
6 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Johnson v. State · Wooley v. State · Reaves v. State · Scisney v. State · Wise 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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When objecting at trial to the giving of an instruction, a party is not required to tender an alternative instruction if the party's objection is sufficiently clear and specific to inform the trial court of the claimed error and to prevent inadvertent error.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Gallagher v. State“[A] tendered instruction is necessary to preserve error because, without the substance of an instruction upon which to rule, the trial court has not been given a reasonable opportunity to consider and implement the request.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ortiz 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.