United States v. Mitchell’s Empirical Analysis
996 F.2d 419 · 1993
Citation profile
39 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions — most recently August 2015 · most notably United States v. White (1997), United States v. Gastiaburo (1994)
39 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 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 18 U.S.C. § 2 · 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on United States v. Peoni · United States v. Boney · United States v. Raper · United States v. Dunn · United States v. Butler
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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“did or did not have the mental state or condition constituting an element of the crime charged....”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“unfairly prejudiced the jury's deliberations.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Q: Now what, if anything, does the packaging of that crack cocaine into nine individual ziplocks tell you about the intent of the person that was carrying those ziplocks? A: It was intent to distribute. ****** Q: Why are you able to say that the person in possession of those nine individual ziplocks, $50 rocks of crack cocaine, has the intent to distribute them? A: As I stated earlier, the packaging is consistent with the way crack cocaine is packaged for street-level distribution.”
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.