United States v. Mitchell’s Empirical Analysis
932 F.2d 1027 · 1991
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently June 2016 · most notably United States v. Hudspeth (1994), United States v. Brady (1993)
20 federal appellate · 1 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 18 U.S.C. § 922 (Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act) · 18 U.S.C. § 924
Relies on Tennessee Valley Authority v. Hill · Rummel v. Estelle · Lewis v. United States · Burlington Northern Railroad v. Oklahoma Tax Commission · In re Disbarment of Sacco
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“this language unambiguously requires that a defendant's three convictions stem from three, separate criminal episodes ... [and] does not require that a defendant's three criminal acts be punctuated by intervening convictions”
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.