Commonwealth v. Henderson’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
45 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently November 2011 · most notably Rivenbark v. Commonwealth, Pennsylvania Board of Probation & Parole (1985), Commonwealth v. Klobuchir (1979)
45 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 North Carolina v. Pearce · Benton v. Maryland · Green v. United States · National Association for Advancement of Colored People v. State of Alabama Patterson · Ball 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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The double jeopardy protection afforded by the fifth amendment is threefold. It protects against a second prosecution for the same offense after acquittal. Green v. United States, 355 U.S. 184 [ 78 S.Ct. 221 , 2 L.Ed.2d 199 ] (1957). It protects against a second prosecution for the same offenses after conviction. In Re Nielsen, 131 U.S. 176 [ 9 S.Ct. 672 , 33 L.Ed. 118 ] (1889). And it protects against multiple punishment for the same offense. United States v. Benz, 282 U.S. 304 [ 51 S.Ct. 113 , 75 L.Ed. 354 ] (1931).”
1 later decision 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.