Preston v. Blackledge’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently March 2017
6 federal appellate · 14 state decisions — followed in 11 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2241 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on North Carolina v. Pearce · Ashe v. Swenson · Benton v. Maryland · Washington v. Texas · Green 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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"There is no doubt that such a practice (retrial after a jury has failed to reach a verdict) is oppressive, that it creates undue anxiety and insecurity, and that it enhances the possibility that an innocent man may be found guilty. Furthermore, this court feels that to try the petitioners five times is far beyond the allowed exceptions set forth in Perez , and also exceeds the limitations on the right to retry an accused subsequently set forth by our Supreme Court."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the accused's right to be tried by a particular tribunal”
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.