Rutledge v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
580 federal appellate · 74 district · 260 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,435 later decisions (7 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2026 · most notably Buckhannon Board and Care Home Incs v. West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources (2001), Hudson v. United States (1997)
580 federal appellate · 74 district · 260 state decisions — followed in 33 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
reviewedUnited States v. Rutledge (from Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Blockburger v. United States · Neil v. Biggers · Benton v. Maryland · Sibron v. State of New York Peters · Brown v. Ohio
Cited together with Blockburger v. United States · Ball v. United States · United States v. Olano · Brown v. Ohio · Missouri v. Hunter
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 1,435 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the same act or transaction constitutes a violation of two distinct statutory provisions, the test to be applied to determine whether there are two offenses or only one is whether each provision requires proof of a fact which the other does not.”
18 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“exercise its discretion to vacate one of the underlying convictions.”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Consistent with the views expressed by the District of Columbia Circuit, federal appellate courts appear to have uniformly concluded that they may direct the entry of judgment for a lesser included offense when a conviction for a greater offense is reversed on grounds that affect only the greater offense. This Court has noted the use of such a practice with approval.”
8 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.