State v. Vaughn’s Empirical Analysis
2005
Citation profile
44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently July 2023 · most notably State v. Roybal (2006), State v. Lohberger (2008)
44 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 Tibbs v. Florida · United States v. Martin Linen Supply Co. · Sanabria v. United States · Smalis v. Pennsylvania · State v. Gomez
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“is not to be controlled by the form of the judge's action. Rather, we must determine whether the ruling of the judge, whatever its label, actually represents a resolution, correct or not, of some or all of the factual elements of the offense charged and the focus is on substance as well as form.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Roybal · State v. Jimenez“Under the doctrine of double jeopardy, a verdict of acquittal is given absolute protection to guarantee finality of that verdict because the defendant's interest in such finality is at its zenith. Also, once an accused is actually, and in express terms, acquitted by a court, the finality of that judgment will not yield to any attempts to dilute it.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Jimenez · State v. Jimenez“`the most fundamental rule' that a defendant cannot be retried after a verdict of acquittal, even if that verdict is egregiously erroneous,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Roybal · State v. Jimenez
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.