Garrison v. Jennings’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

7 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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““A court should look past the form to the substance of an action especially in view of the informal nature of juvenile proceedings .... Having decided that the petitioner should be given special treatment, such treatment was made in lieu of criminal prosecution rather than in addition to it. Under the circumstances we conclude that the Superior Court made a de facto determination to treat the petitioner as a juvenile delinquent. Thus the petitioner was not only placed in jeopardy in the juvenile court but was in effect convicted and punished. Any attempt to try him as an adult would not only subject him to the harassment of an additional judicial proceeding but would subject him to the risk of being punished twice for the same offense____””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Parojinog v. State

2. “No person shall... be again put in jeopardy of life or liberty for that of which he has been acquitted [n]or shall any person be twice put in jeopardy of life or liberty for the same offense.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Matter of HJ

3. “* * * nor shall any person be subject for the same offense to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 67 Ill. App. 3d 451 - In Re RLK