Gentry v. MacDougall’s Empirical Analysis
685 F.2d 322 · 1982
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently December 2009
12 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 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 Brown v. Ohio · Mullaney v. Wilbur · Enmund v. Florida · Whalen v. United States · Bell 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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he Fifth Amendment double jeopardy guarantee serves principally as a restraint on courts and prosecutors. The legislature remains free under the Double Jeopardy Clause to define crimes and fix punishments.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“It is settled law that without legislative authorization a court may not constitutionally impose consecutive sentences.”
1 later decision 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.