Ex Parte Heath’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2010
21 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 Bartkus v. People of State of Illinois · United States v. Wheeler · Abbate v. United States · Waller v. Florida · United States v. Lanza
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]f, for double jeopardy purposes, Alabama is considered to be a sovereign entity vis-a-vis the federal government then surely it is a sovereign entity vis-a-vis the State of Georgia.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Heath v. Alabama“[A] state and a municipal subdivision of the same state cannot bring successive prosecutions for offenses arising out of the same conduct.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[p]rosecutions under the laws of separate sovereigns do not improperly subject an accused twice to prosecutions for the same offense,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Heath v. Alabama
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.