Jackson v. Walker’s Empirical Analysis
585 F.2d 139 · 1978
Citation profile
35 federal appellate · 2 district · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 73 later decisions — most recently January 2018 · most notably United States v. Phillips (1981), United States v. Chagra (1982)
35 federal appellate · 2 district · 16 state decisions — followed in 13 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 Blockburger v. United States · North Carolina v. Pearce · Griffin v. People of the State of Illinois · Douglas v. People of State of California · Blackledge v. Perry
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 73 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(i)n deciding whether to require a showing of actual vindictiveness or merely a showing of reasonable apprehension of vindictiveness, a court must weigh the extent to which allowing the second indictment will chill the exercise of the defendants' (due process) rights against the extent to which forbidding the second indictment will infringe on the exercise of the prosecutor's independent discretion.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“harsher (variation) of the same original decision to prosecute.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a previously completed exercise of discretion,”
2 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.