Mitchell v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
4 state decisions
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Texas 144th Judicial District Court)
Relationships
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Jackson v. Denno · United States v. Cronic · Riverbend Farms, Inc. v. Agricultural Labor Relations Board · Logan v. Zimmerman Brush Co.
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Moreover, counsel's advice does not have to be perfect, so long as it is reasonably competent to permit the accused to make an informed and conscious decision.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Briggs 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.