United States v. Mitchell’s Empirical Analysis
915 F.2d 521 · 1990
Citation profile
6 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently August 2010
6 federal appellate ·
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. § 2252 · 18 U.S.C. § 3231 · 28 U.S.C. § 1291
Relies on United States v. Russell · New York v. Ferber · Coy v. Iowa · Osborne v. Ohio · Ryan 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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A motion to dismiss an indictment on grounds of unreasonable governmental conduct is a question of law reviewed de novo.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“so grossly shocking and so outrageous as to violate the universal sense of justice.”
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.