United States v. Mitchell’s Empirical Analysis
783 F.2d 971 · 1986
Citation profile
69 federal appellate · 8 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 98 later decisions — most recently February 2023 · most notably United States v. Saucedo (1991), United States v. Tisdale (1990)
69 federal appellate · 8 district · 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. § 3109 · 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 28 U.S.C. § 2255 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Terry v. Ohio · United States v. Leon · Simmons v. United States · United States v. Young
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 98 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“unless the error 'seriously affects the fairness, integrity or public reputation of judicial proceedings.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“showing of any impediment to the appellant that precluded his raising the issue”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[i]ssues not raised in the trial court will not be considered for the first time on appeal”
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.