Sattazahn v. Pennsylvania’s Empirical Analysis
2003
Citation profile
163 federal appellate · 18 district · 345 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 618 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2023 · most notably Schriro Director Arizona Department of Corrections v. Summerlin (2004), State v. Hancock (2006)
163 federal appellate · 18 district · 345 state decisions — followed in 30 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.
Relationships
Relies on Apprendi v. New Jersey · North Carolina v. Pearce · Gregg v. Georgia · Burks v. United States · Ring v. Arizona
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 618 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Under this Clause, once a defendant is placed in jeopardy for an offense, and jeopardy terminates with respect to that offense, the defendant may neither be tried nor punished a second time for the same offense.”
17 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“`the functional equivalent of an element of a greater offense.'”
13 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“We can think of no principled reason to distinguish, in this context, between what constitutes an offense for purposes of the Sixth Amendment's jury-trial guarantee and what constitutes an 'offence' for purposes of the Fifth Amendment's Double Jeopardy Clause.”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.