Davis v. Bennett’s Empirical Analysis
400 F.2d 279 · 1968
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently May 2003
12 federal appellate · 7 state decisions
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 Fay v. Noia · Williams v. People of State of New York · Green v. United States · Fahy v. Connecticut · Spencer v. State of Texas a Bell
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * nor shall any person be subject for the same offense to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb * * *.”
1 later decision 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.