Mitchell v. Hoke’s Empirical Analysis
930 F.2d 1 · 1991
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently December 2013
3 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 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 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Ohio v. Roberts · Pointer v. Texas · California v. Green · Dutton v. Evans · Douglas v. Alabama
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The constitutional constraints on hearsay testimony thus protect the adversary system of justice and the accompanying preference for “face to face” accusation.... [T]he Supreme Court has also observed that the hearsay rules and the confrontation clause are intended “ ‘to protect similar values’ and ‘stem from the same roots.’ ” Thus, if evidence is admissible pursuant to “a firmly rooted hearsay exception,” it generally does not offend the confrontation clause.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“(1) the statement has equivalent circumstantial guarantees of trustworthiness; (2) it is offered as evidence of a material fact; (3) it is more probative on the point for which it is offered than any other evidence that the proponent can obtain through reasonable efforts; and (4) admitting it will best serve the purposes of these rules and the interests of justice.”
1 later decision 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.