Ashe v. Swenson’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
2,195 federal appellate · 228 district · 4,268 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8,017 later decisions (170 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2025 · most notably Brown v. Ohio (1977), United States v. Dixon (1993)
2,195 federal appellate · 228 district · 4,268 state decisions — followed in 50 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
reviewedBob Fred Ashe v. Harold R. Swenson, Warden (from Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on United Mine Workers of America v. Gibbs · Blockburger v. United States · Bruton v. United States · New York Times Co. v. Sullivan · North Carolina v. Pearce
Cited together with Blockburger v. United States · Benton v. Maryland · Green v. United States · Brown v. Ohio · North Carolina v. Pearce
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 8,017 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“when an issue of ultimate fact has once been determined by a valid and final judgment, that issue cannot again be litigated between the same parties in any future lawsuit.”
581 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“bars relitigation between the same parties of issues actually determined at a previous trial....”
18 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“not guilty due to insufficient evidence.”
18 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.