Mollett v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently April 2025 · most notably Duvall v. Reynolds (1998), Bland v. State (2000)
7 federal appellate · 25 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 Strickland v. Washington · Arizona v. Youngblood · Steagald v. United States · United States v. Dionisio · Sowashee Venture v. EB, Inc.
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The existence of probable cause is a common sense standard requiring facts sufficient to warrant a man of reasonable caution in the belief that an offense has or is being committed.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Pickens v. State · Bland v. State“A design to effect death [i.e., premeditation] is inferred from the fact of killing, unless the circumstances raise a reasonable doubt whether such design existed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Bland v. State“[t]he phrase `serious abuse' as used in this context is commonly interpreted as referring to physical abuse.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Phillips 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.