United States v. Mitchell’s Empirical Analysis
964 F.2d 454 · 1992
Citation profile
69 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 73 later decisions — most recently August 2013 · most notably United States v. Early (1994), United States v. McCaskey (1993)
69 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
Relies on Anderson v. City of Bessemer City · United States v. United States Gypsum Co. · Calder v. Job · Withrow v. Williams · Mmahat v. Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.
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 73 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“when, although there is evidence to support it, the reviewing court on the entire evidence is left with the definite and firm conviction that a mistake has been committed.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(a) Base Offense Level: If a defendant is convicted of a conspiracy or an attempt to commit any offense involving a controlled substance, the offense level shall be the same as if the object of the conspiracy or attempt had been completed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“ ‘will not review a district court’s refusal to depart from the Guidelines, unless the refusal was in violation of the law.’ ”
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.