United States v. DiFrancesco’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
946 federal appellate · 71 district · 1,646 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 3,180 later decisions (60 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2026 · most notably Monge v. California (1998), Tibbs v. Florida (1982)
946 federal appellate · 71 district · 1,646 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
reviewedthe decision below (from Second Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 1341 (White-Collar Crime Penalty Enhancement Act of 2002) · 18 U.S.C. § 1361 · 18 U.S.C. § 1962 (§ 901 of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act) · 18 U.S.C. § 371 · 18 U.S.C. § 3731 · 18 U.S.C. § 842 · 21 U.S.C. § 849 (§ 409 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on North Carolina v. Pearce · Burks v. United States · Benton v. Maryland · Green v. United States · United States v. Jorn
Cited together with North Carolina v. Pearce · Burks v. United States · United States v. Scott · Green v. United States · Bozza 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 3,180 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the pronouncement of sentence has never carried the finality that attaches to an acquittal.”
228 later decisions quote this exact passage“(n)o person shall, for the same offense, be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb ....”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“where there is no threat of either multiple punishment or successive prosecutions, the Double Jeopardy Clause is not offended.”
6 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.