State v. Tolbert’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
74 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 76 later decisions — most recently December 2024 · most notably State v. Brown (2008), State v. Gustafson (1996)
74 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
Relies on Blockburger v. United States · Ashe v. Swenson · Benton v. Maryland · Brown v. Ohio · Iannelli v. United States
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 76 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the Double Jeopardy Clause * * * prohibits successive prosecutions for the same criminal act or transaction under two criminal statutes unless each statute 'requires proof of a fact which the other does not.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“[n]o person shall *** be subject for the same offense to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb,”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“where the state is unable to proceed on the more serious charge at the outset because additional facts necessary to sustain that charge have not occurred or have not been discovered despite the exercise of due diligence.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.