Duncan v. Tennessee’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 67 later decisions (7 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2012 · most notably Illinois v. Somerville (1973), De La Cruz v. Tormey (1978)
17 federal appellate · 33 state decisions — followed in 10 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 Ashe v. Swenson · Benton v. Maryland · Green v. United States · United States v. Jorn · Wade v. Hunter
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 67 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a]fter briefing and oral argument, it now appears that those questions are so interrelated with rules of criminal pleading peculiar to the state of Tennessee, the constitutionality of which is not at issue, as not to warrant the exercise of the certiorari jurisdiction of this court.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“requires the prosecution ‘to join at one trial all the charges against a defendant that grow out of a single criminal act, occurrence, episode, or transaction.’ Ashe v. Swenson, 397 U.S. 436, 453-54 , 90 S.Ct. 1189, 1199 ,2 5 L.Ed.2d 469 (1970) (Brennan, J., concurring); Duncan v. Tennessee, 405 U.S. 127, 132 , 92 S.Ct. 785 , 31 L.Ed.2d 86 (1972) (Brennan, J., dissenting).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.