Heldenbrand v. Mills’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 federal appellate · 6 state decisions

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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““A series of criminal charges cannot . be based upon the same criminal act or transaction; a single criminal act cannot be split up or subdivided into two or more distinct offenses . . .”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Kite v. State · Householder v. Ramey

2. ““[W]here, as in this case, a person has been tried and convicted for a crime which has various incidents included in it, he cannot be a second time tried for one of those incidents without' being twice put in jeopardy for the same offense.””

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Kite v. State · Householder v. Ramey

3. ““No person can be subjected to a second prosecution for a public offense for which he has once been prosecuted and duly convicted or acquitted, except as hereinafter provided for new trials.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Branch v. Mills