Winston, Sheriff, Et Al. v. Moore’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 3 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2026 · most notably 176 L. Ed. 2d 678 - Renico v. Lett (2010), United States v. Miller (1982)
15 federal appellate · 3 district · 8 state decisions
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 Arizona v. Washington · Wade v. Hunter · United States v. Josef Perez · Gori 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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We think, that in all cases of this nature, the law has invested Courts of justice with the authority to discharge a jury from giving any verdict, whenever, in their opinion taking all the circumstances into consideration, there is a manifest necessity for the [mistrial], or the ends of public justice would otherwise be defeated. It has been established for 160 years ... that a failure of the jury to agree on a verdict was an instance of “manifest necessity” which permitted a trial judge to terminate the first trial and retry the defendant. ...”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Halsey v. Clarke
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.