Reynolds v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently March 2016
11 state decisions
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
Applies 21 U.S.C. § 801 (§ 101 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 903 (§ 708 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Benton v. Maryland · Bartkus v. People of State of Illinois · Waller v. Florida · York Committee for a Safe Environment v. United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission · Stein v. State
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is true that but one act of robbery was involved. * * * But by committing that robbery appellant violated the statutes of two separate sovereigns and thus committed two separate offenses.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ex parte Gary
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.