United States v. Mitchell’s Empirical Analysis
765 F.2d 130 · 1985
Citation profile
11 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently September 2009
11 federal appellate ·
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 18 U.S.C. § 1202 · 18 U.S.C. § 922 (Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act)
Relies on Blanton v. General Electric Credit Corp. · Lyon v. California · United States v. Grubb · United States v. Gonzales-Palma
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“clear abuse of discretion resulting in manifest injustice.”
2 later decisions 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.