Missouri v. Hunter’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
1,152 federal appellate · 106 district · 2,407 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4,303 later decisions (46 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2026 · most notably Michigan v. Long (1983), United States v. Halper (1989)
1,152 federal appellate · 106 district · 2,407 state decisions — followed in 47 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 · Burks v. United States · Benton v. Maryland · Sibron v. State of New York Peters
Cited together with Blockburger v. United States · Albernaz v. United States · Whalen v. United States · North Carolina v. Pearce · Brown v. Ohio
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 4,303 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“With respect to cumulative sentences imposed in a single trial, the Double Jeopardy Clause does no more than prevent the sentencing court from prescribing greater punishment than the legislature intended.”
318 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Jones v. Thomas · Grady v. Corbin“petitioner [had] committed two separate and distinct criminal acts, the first of which was completed before the second began.... Further, under Oklahoma law, the offenses of rape and sodomy each require[s] proof of a fact which the other does not.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Carter · In Re Dw“multiple punishments for the same offense.”
4 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.