Breed v. Jones’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
282 federal appellate · 55 district · 1,614 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 2,203 later decisions (58 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2023 · most notably Burks v. United States (1978), Abney v. United States (1977)
282 federal appellate · 55 district · 1,614 state decisions — followed in 48 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
reviewedJones ex rel. Jones v. Breed (from Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on In the Matter of Samuel Winship · Gault · Benton v. Maryland · Green v. United States · Argersinger v. Hamlin
Cited together with Gault · In the Matter of Samuel Winship · Kent v. United States · Green v. United States · McKeiver v. Pennsylvania
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 2,203 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[j]eopardy denotes risk. In the constitutional sense, jeopardy describes the risk that is traditionally associated with criminal prosecution.”
132 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Engle v. Sims · Holt v. Black“Was Appellant put in jeopardy at juvenile court at adjudicatory hearing, whose object was to determine whether he had committed acts that violated a criminal law and whose potential consequences included both the stigma inherent in that determination and the deprivation of liberty for many years, and prosecution of Appellant as an adult in district court after Appellant had been found unfit for treatment as a juvenile?”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Sanders v. State · Swisher v. Brady“[T]he Double Jeopardy Clause of the Fifth Amendment prohibits reexamination of a court-decreed acquittal to the same extent it prohibits reexamination of an acquittal by jury verdict.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.