Clawans v. Rives’s Empirical Analysis
104 F.2d 240 · 1939
Citation profile
40 federal appellate · 8 district · 25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 83 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 1979 · most notably Walker v. Johnston (1941), Johnson v. Matthews (1950)
40 federal appellate · 8 district · 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 Johnson v. Zerbst · Ball v. United States · Ex parte Lange · Ex Parte Nielsen · Kepner v. United States
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 83 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"When the accused has no legal right to a trial by jury, he may be put in jeopardy before a competent court legally sitting without a jury. When a case is properly tried by a court without a jury, jeopardy begins after the accused has been arraigned, has pleaded, and the court has begun to hear evidence."”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“is not against being twice punished, but against being twice put in jeopardy; and the accused, whether convicted or acquitted, is equally put in jeopardy at the first trial.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Johnson v. Rhay““The phrase ‘life or limb’ has not been construed strictly: it applies to any criminal penalty.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.