State v. Sammons’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2008 · most notably United States v. Dixon (1993), State v. Brown (1992)
1 federal appellate · 23 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 15 U.S.C. § 1 (§ 1 of the Sherman Antitrust Act) · 18 U.S.C. § 401
Relies on Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Ashe v. Swenson · Whalen v. United States · Bloom v. Illinois · Menna v. New York
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The traditional view has long been that “former jeopardy cannot be invoked on the ground the same act is punishable both as a contempt of court and as a crime.” The reason underlying the rule is a recognition that the two offenses are not the same for constitutional purposes. Thus, the courts have concluded, “the fact that an act constituting a contempt is also criminal and punishable by indictment or other method of criminal prosecution does not deprive the outraged court from punishing the contempt.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Winningham“[A] proceeding for contempt while it is of a criminal nature is not a criminal prosecution. Courts having no criminal jurisdiction may punish for contempt. And, when the contempt consists of an act punishable under criminal law, ... the adjudication of contempt will be no bar to a criminal prosecution for [the same transaction]. The proceeding in contempt is for an offense against the court as an organ of public justice, and not for a violation of the criminal law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Wyche“The purposes of the general statutes authorizing a court to punish for abuse of its processes and those creating and prescribing punishment for various indictable offenses are so entirely different, and designed to accomplish such wholly different purposes, that we do not find any violation of constitutional principles in imposing punishment upon an offender under both sets of statutes.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Winningham
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.