Bartkus v. People of State of Illinois’s Empirical Analysis
1959
Citation profile
848 federal appellate · 144 district · 641 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 2,210 later decisions (72 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2024 · most notably North Carolina v. Pearce (1969), Ashe v. Swenson (1970)
848 federal appellate · 144 district · 641 state decisions — followed in 45 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 18 U.S.C. § 2113 · 18 U.S.C. § 2117 · 18 U.S.C. § 2421 (White-Slave Traffic Act of 1910 (Mann Act))
Relies on Rochin v. People of California · Green v. United States · Hines v. Davidowitz · Screws v. United States · Palko v. State of Connecticut
Cited together with Abbate v. United States · United States v. Lanza · Heath v. Alabama · United States v. Wheeler · Benton v. Maryland
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 2,210 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a sham and a cover for a federal prosecution.”
21 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Fear and abhorrence of governmental power to try people twice for the same conduct is one of the oldest ideas found in western civilization. Its roots run deep into Greek and Roman times. Even in the Dark Ages, when so many other principles of justice were lost, the idea that one trial and one punishment were enough remained alive through the canon law and the teachings of the early Christian writers. By the thirteenth century it seems to have been firmly established in England, where it came to be considered as a 'universal maxim of the common law.'”
14 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent““Every citizen of the United States is also a citizen of a State or territory. He may be said to owe allegiance to two sovereigns, and may be liable to punishment for an infraction of the laws of either. The same act may be an offence or transgression of the laws of both.””
14 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.