Mitchell v. Goldsmith’s Empirical Analysis
878 F.2d 319 · 1989
Citation profile
31 federal appellate · 6 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently December 2014 · most notably Leavitt v. Arave (2004), United States v. Hernandez (1997)
31 federal appellate · 6 district ·
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 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Wainwright v. Sykes · Manson v. Brathwaite · United States v. Young · Stone v. Powell · California v. Trombetta
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“even if the evidence was potentially useful, the state record fails to support a finding of bad faith on the part of the police.... In the absence of bad faith, failure to preserve the lineups does not constitute a denial of due process of law.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“full and fair opportunity to argue his Fourth Amendment claim in state court.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hammond v. Lewis E“undermine[s] the fundamental fairness of the trial.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Stewart v. Roland
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.