United States v. Scott’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
938 federal appellate · 74 district · 1,626 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 3,098 later decisions (90 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2025 · most notably Tibbs v. Florida (1982), Payne v. Tennessee (1991)
938 federal appellate · 74 district · 1,626 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedUnited States v. Scott (from Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Burks v. United States · United States v. Marion · Stone v. Powell · Green v. United States · United States v. Russell
Cited together with United States v. Martin Linen Supply Co. · Green v. United States · Burks v. United States · United States v. Jorn · United States v. Wilson
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 3,098 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A judgment of acquittal, whether based on a jury verdict of not guilty or on a ruling by the court that the evidence is insufficient to convict, may not be appealed and terminates the prosecution when a second trial would be necessitated by a reversal.”
120 later decisions quote this exact passage“the Double Jeopardy Clause, which guards against Government oppression, does not relieve a defendant from the consequences of his voluntary choice.”
88 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“the ruling of the judge, whatever its label, actually represents a resolution [in the defendant's favor], correct or not, of some or all of the factual elements of the offense charged.”
61 later decisions 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.