United States v. Mitchell’s Empirical Analysis
812 F.2d 1250 · 1987
Citation profile
49 federal appellate · 4 district · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 90 later decisions — most recently October 2020 · most notably United States v. Orozco-Santillan (1990), United States v. Asibor (1997)
49 federal appellate · 4 district · 18 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. § 3013 · 18 U.S.C. § 871 (Presidential Threat Protection Act of 2000) · 28 U.S.C. § 1291
Relies on Wong Sun v. United States · Vandygriff v. Phillips · Silverthorne Lumber Co. v. United States · Hannahville Indian Community v. United States · United States v. McConney
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 90 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a serious expression of an intention to inflict bodily harm upon or to take the life of the [Vice] President”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[M]ost cases arising under this statute [Sec. 871] present widely varying fact patterns that should be left to the trier of fact.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“must be determined in light of the entire factual context of the defendant's statements.”
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.