United States v. Singleterry’s Empirical Analysis
683 F.2d 122 · 1982
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently April 2025 · most notably United States v. El-Mezain (2011), State v. LaMere (2000)
12 federal appellate · 9 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 28 U.S.C. § 1291
Relies on Burks v. United States · Abney v. United States · Oregon v. Kennedy · Steagald v. United States · United States v. Dinitz
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the defendant has not lost his chance for an acquittal by the first jury.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“seek[ ] a more favorable opportunity to convict”
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.