Ex Parte Spears’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
46 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently November 2011 · most notably Ex Parte United Service Stations, Inc. (1993), Ex Parte Ziglar (1995)
46 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 Green v. United States · Abney v. United States · United States v. Jorn · Grady v. Corbin · Ball 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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“if a criminal defendant is to avoid exposure to double jeopardy and thereby enjoy the full protection of the [double jeopardy] clause, his double jeopardy challenge to the indictment must be reviewable before the subsequent exposure occurs.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Mandamus is a drastic and extraordinary writ, to be issued only where there is a clear legal right to the relief sought by the *Page 385 petitioner.”
1 later decision 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.