Fong Foo v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
1962
Citation profile
279 federal appellate · 18 district · 513 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 996 later decisions (68 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2025 · most notably Burks v. United States (1978), Tibbs v. Florida (1982)
279 federal appellate · 18 district · 513 state decisions — followed in 39 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedIn re United States (from First Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Ball v. United States · Gori v. United States · Ex parte United States · United States v. E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co.
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 996 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the acquittal was based upon an egregiously erroneous foundation.”
40 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“violated when the Court of Appeals set aside the judgment of acquittal and directed that petitioners be tried again for the same offense.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]he Double Jeopardy Clause of the Fifth Amendment prohibits reexamination of a court-decreed acquittal to the same extent it prohibits reexamination of an acquittal by jury verdict.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. In Re ZS
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.