Brown v. Ohio’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
1,568 federal appellate · 200 district · 3,608 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6,271 later decisions (97 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2026 · most notably Missouri v. Hunter (1983), United States v. Dixon (1993)
1,568 federal appellate · 200 district · 3,608 state decisions — followed in 49 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 Blockburger v. United States · North Carolina v. Pearce · Ashe v. Swenson · Green v. United States
Cited together with Blockburger v. United States · North Carolina v. Pearce · Iannelli v. United States · Ashe v. Swenson · Whalen 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 6,271 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“protects against a second prosecution for the same offense after acquittal. It protects against a second prosecution for the same offense after conviction. And it protects against multiple punishments for the same offense.”
303 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The applicable rule is that where the same act or transaction constitutes a violation of two distinct statutory provisions, the test to be applied to determine whether there are two offenses or only one, is whether each provision requires proof of a fact which the other does not.”
126 later decisions quote this exact passage“The Double Jeopardy Clause is not such a fragile guarantee that prosecutors can avoid its limitations by the simple expedient of dividing a single crime into a series of temporal or spatial units.”
54 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.