Price v. Georgia’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
322 federal appellate · 23 district · 835 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,381 later decisions (61 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2026 · most notably Burks v. United States (1978), Abney v. United States (1977)
322 federal appellate · 23 district · 835 state decisions — followed in 47 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
Relies on Chapman v. State of California · Benton v. Maryland · Harrington v. California · Green v. United States · Palko v. State of Connecticut
Cited together with Green v. United States · Ball v. United States · Benton v. Maryland · North Carolina v. Pearce · Burks v. United States
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 1,381 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“effectively formulated a concept of continuing jeopardy that has application where criminal proceedings against an accused have not run their full course.”
92 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]he continuing jeopardy principle appears to rest on an amalgam of interests--e.g., fairness to society, lack of finality, and limited waiver, among others.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Petitioner was charged with the killing of Johnnie Mae Dupree in an indictment for the offense of murder filed in the Superior Court of Effingham County, Georgia. He entered a plea of not guilty and was tried on October 17, 1962. The jury returned a verdict of guilty to the lesser included crime of voluntary manslaughter and fixed the sentence at 10 to 15 years in the state penitentiary. The jury's verdict made no reference to the charge of murder. The Court of Appeals of Georgia reversed the conviction because of an erroneous jury instruction and ordered a new trial.”
2 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.