United States v. Mitchell’s Empirical Analysis
778 F.2d 1271 · 1985
Citation profile
34 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2012 · most notably United States v. Armstrong (1996), Peso Chavez v. The Illinois State Police (2001)
34 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
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. § 2421 (White-Slave Traffic Act of 1910 (Mann Act)) · 18 U.S.C. § 371
Relies on Bruton v. United States · Caminetti v. United States · Wayte v. United States · Bartkus v. People of State of Illinois · United States v. Wheeler
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“may ... be entitled to discovery on the issue of selective prosecution if he introduces ' "some evidence tending to show the existence of the essential elements of the defense.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“does not create a substantive right for the defendant which he may enforce, and is not subject to judicial review”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Cotton“internal guideline for the exercise of prosecutorial discretion”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Cotton
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.