Jacobs v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently October 2009
2 federal appellate · 17 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
Relies on North Carolina v. Pearce · Williams v. People of State of New York · Blackledge v. Perry · Colten v. Commonwealth of Kentucky · Chaffin v. Stynchcombe
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““due process does require that vindictiveness against a defendant for having successfully attacked his first conviction must play no part in the sentence he receives after a new trial and second conviction. Moreover, so that a defendant in such a situation may be freed of any apprehension of retaliatory motivation on the part of the sentencing judge, the reasons for the more severe second sentence (1) must affirmatively appear in the record and (2) must be based on objective information concerning identifiable conduct on the part of the defendant occurring after the time of the original sentencing proceeding.” (citations omitted)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Tramill v. State“1) the testimony of an accomplice is considered testimony from a tainted source and must be scrutinized with great care and caution; 2) this rule [of accomplice testimony] becomes impartial [sic] when there is nothing in the evidence, direct or indirect to corroborate the alleged accomplice testimony; 3) the burden of proof is always on the prosecution, and that the defendant need not present any evidence in his behalf.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Jacobs v. Redman“it is clear that the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment has now been construed to require that where the second sentence upon retrial in a state court is greater than the first `the factual data upon which the increased sentence is based must be made part of the record....'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Wescott v. State
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.