16 Va. App. 844 - Sullivan v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
30
cited by 30 later decisions
4
states following
March 2005
most recently cited
24 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Blockburger v. United States · North Carolina v. Pearce · Brown v. Ohio · United States v. Dixon · Grady v. Corbin
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The Double Jeopardy Clause of the Fifth Amendment protects against a second prosecution for the same offense after acquittal. It protects against a second prosecution for the same offense after conviction. And it protects against multiple punishments for the same offense.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the appropriate `unit of prosecution' is determined by the number of persons from whose possession property is taken separately by force or intimidation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“custodians of the store's money and jointly possessed it.”
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.