Grady v. Corbin’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
800 federal appellate · 83 district · 1,813 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 3,050 later decisions (32 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2026 · most notably Harmelin v. Michigan (1991), Payne v. Tennessee (1991)
800 federal appellate · 83 district · 1,813 state decisions — followed in 47 states
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. A case is still cited after being overruled — to note the reversal, distinguish it, or in dissent. 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 · Santobello v. New York · Burks v. United States · Ashe v. Swenson
Cited together with Blockburger v. United States · United States v. Dixon · Brown v. Ohio · North Carolina v. Pearce · Illinois v. Vitale
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 3,050 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the Double Jeopardy Clause bars any subsequent prosecution in which the government, to establish an essential element of an offense charged in that prosecution, will prove conduct that constitutes an offense for which the defendant has already been prosecuted.”
273 later decisions quote this exact passage“the Double Jeopardy Clause bars a subsequent prosecution if, to establish an essential element of an offense charged in that prosecution, the government will prove conduct that constitutes an offense for which the defendant has already been prosecuted.”
71 later decisions quote this exact passage“The Blockburger test has nothing to do with the evidence presented at trial. It is concerned solely with the statutory elements of the offenses charged.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.