Jones v. Thomas’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
231 federal appellate · 22 district · 309 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 732 later decisions (21 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2025 · most notably Grady v. Corbin (1990), United States v. Ursery (1996)
231 federal appellate · 22 district · 309 state decisions — followed in 34 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedThomas v. Morris (from Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Blockburger v. United States · North Carolina v. Pearce · Ashe v. Swenson · Missouri v. Hunter · United States v. Halper
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 732 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“be subject for the same offense to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“It protects against a second prosecution for the same offense after acquittal. It protects against a second prosecution for the same offense after conviction. And it protects against multiple punishments for the same offense.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Com. v. Kemmerer · Odom v. State“sentencing courts do not exceed, by the device of multiple punishments, the limits prescribed by the legislative branch of government, in which lies the substantive power to define crimes and prescribe punishments.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.