State v. Lynch’s Empirical Analysis
2003
Citation profile
50 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently May 2021 · most notably State v. Frazier (2007), State v. Vaughn (2005)
50 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 North Carolina v. Pearce · Green v. United States · United States v. Jorn · Blackledge v. Perry · United States v. Scott
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he State with all its resources and power should not be allowed to make repeated attempts to convict an individual for an alleged offense, thereby subjecting him to embarrassment, expense and ordeal and compelling him to live in a continuing state of anxiety and insecurity, as well as enhancing the possibility that even though innocent he may be found guilty.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“No person shall ... be subject for the same offense to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Gonzales · State v. Loza“No person shall be . . . twice put in jeopardy for the same offense[.]”
2 later decisions 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.