Gavieres v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
220 U.S. 338 · 1911
Citation profile
614 federal appellate · 67 district · 417 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,317 later decisions (67 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2023 · most notably Blockburger v. United States (1932), Pinkerton v. United States (1946)
614 federal appellate · 67 district · 417 state decisions — followed in 44 states
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 Kepner v. United States · Burton v. United States · Carter v. McClaughry · Grafton v. United States
Cited together with Blockburger v. United States · Morgan v. Devine · Brown v. Ohio · Pereira v. United States · Burton v. United States
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 1,317 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A single act may be an offense against two statutes; and if each statute requires proof of an additional fact which the other does not, an acquittal or conviction under either statute does not exempt the defendant from prosecution and punishment under the other.”
49 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“It is true that the acts and words of the accused set forth in both charges are the same; but in the second case it was charged, as was essential to conviction, that the misbehavior in deed and words was addressed to a public official. In this view we are of opinion that while the transaction charged is the same in each case, the offenses are different.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[w]hile it is true that the conduct of the accused was one and the same, two offenses resulted, each of which had an element not embraced in the other”
2 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.