Epps v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
47 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions — most recently August 2021 · most notably Fitzgerald v. Commonwealth (1982), Jones v. Commonwealth (1978)
47 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 2113
Relies on Blockburger v. United States · Gore v. United States · Heflin v. United States · Babich v. United States · Ebeling v. Morgan
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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is the identity of the offense, and not the act, which is referred to in the constitutional guaranty against double jeopardy.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“amounts to such a defense in purpose and desired effect.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.