United States v. Ewell’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
860 federal appellate · 115 district · 1,095 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 2,528 later decisions (43 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2025 · most notably Barker v. Wingo (1972), North Carolina v. Pearce (1969)
860 federal appellate · 115 district · 1,095 state decisions — followed in 46 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. § 3731 · 26 U.S.C. § 7237 · 28 U.S.C. § 2255 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Blockburger v. United States · Fay v. Noia · Griffin v. People of the State of Illinois · Douglas v. People of State of California · Green v. United States
Cited together with United States v. Marion · Barker v. Wingo · Klopfer v. State of North Carolina · Smith v. Hooey · Dickey v. Florida
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 2,528 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“This guarantee is an important safeguard to prevent undue and oppressive incarceration prior to trial, to minimize anxiety and concern accompanying public accusation and to limit the possibilities that long delay will impair the ability of an accused to defend himself.”
130 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“In all criminal prosecutions the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial * * *.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“"That clause, designed to prohibit double jeopardy as well as double punishment, is not properly invoked to bar a second prosecution unless the `same offence' is involved in both the first and the second trials." (Emphasis supplied.) 86 S.Ct. at 778 .”
4 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.