State v. Cahoon’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

7 state decisions

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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “'jeopardy does not attach until a defendant is put to trial before the trier of the facts, " State v. Cahoon, 2009 UT 9, ¶ 12 , 203 P.3d 957 (quoting Serfass v. United States, 420 U.S. 377, 391 , 95 S.Ct. 1055 , 43 L.Ed.2d 265 (1975)), double jeopardy "does not attach at pretrial proceedings,”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Sommerville

2. “Utah's statutory double jeopardy protection ... [protects defendants] from subsequent prosecutions for the same eriminal act ... if the prosecution 'resulted in a finding of not guilty by the trier of facts or in a determination that there was insufficient evidence to warrant conviction'”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. State v. Stewart

3. “defendant from (1) a second prosecution for the same offense after acquittal, (2) a second prosecution for the same offense after conviction, and (3) multiple punishments for the same offense.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Sommerville