In re Ascher’s Empirical Analysis
1902
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently June 2007
14 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 United States v. Josef Perez · Simmons v. United States · Thompson v. United States · People v. Harding · Shroll v. Klinker
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We think that in all cases of this nature the law has invested courts of justice with the authority to discharge a jury from giving any verdict, whenever in their opinion, taking all the circumstances into consideration, there is a manifest necessity for the act, or the ends of public justice would otherwise be defeated. They are to exercise a sound discretion on the subject; and it is impossible to define all the circumstances which would render it proper to interfere.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Schepps · People v. Sharp““While this language differs from that used in the United States Constitution, the law of jeopardy is doubtless the same under both provisions.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Powers““No person, after acquittal upon the merits, shall be tried for the same offense.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Powers
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.