United States v. Dinitz’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
860 federal appellate · 82 district · 1,525 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 2,840 later decisions (46 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2026 · most notably Arizona v. Washington (1978), Oregon v. Kennedy (1982)
860 federal appellate · 82 district · 1,525 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Johnson v. Zerbst · North Carolina v. Pearce · Benton v. Maryland · Green v. United States · United States v. Jorn
Cited together with United States v. Jorn · Wade v. Hunter · Oregon v. Kennedy · Arizona v. Washington · Illinois v. Somerville
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 2,840 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“motivated by bad faith or undertaken to harass or prejudice.”
151 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The Double Jeopardy Clause of the Fifth Amendment protects a defendant in a criminal proceeding against multiple punishments or repeated prosecutions for the same offense.”
26 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[h]arassment of an accused by successive prosecutions or declaration of a mistrial so as to afford the prosecution a more favorable opportunity to convict”
21 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.