United States v. Mitchell’s Empirical Analysis
82 F.3d 146 · 1996
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 1 district · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2020 · most notably Thornton v. United States (2004), Cheryl Hooven-Lewis v. Louis Caldera (2001)
10 federal appellate · 1 district · 9 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
Relies on Chimel v. California · Coolidge v. New Hampshire · New York v. Belton · United States v. Robinson · Sedillo v. United States
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“when a policeman has made a lawful custodial arrest of the occupant of an automobile, he may, as a contemporaneous incident of that arrest, search the passenger compartment of that automobile.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[W]hen a suspect does not withdraw [her] valid consent to a search before the illegal weapon or substance is discovered, the consent remains valid and the seized illegal item is admissible.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[The fact that Mr. Mitchell was placed under arrest sometime after the first consent does not work as an automatic withdrawal of the consent previously given”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Underwood 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.