Webb v. Hutto’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

3 federal appellate · 13 state decisions

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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “The simple, yet to us controlling, consideration is that the accused must be placed in jeopardy twice for double jeopardy to exist. It happens when the second event involves a completely new beginning, i.e., when the second proceeding takes place before a new trier of fact, whether that be a different judge or jury, or the same judge starting with a clean slate. It simply does not occur when the very same proceeding continues on after a brief postponement before the first and only trier of fact, as was the case here.”

   4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Lyle v. State · People v. Valencia

2. “solely because of his realization that the case could not be made against the petitioner without the testimony of at least one of the co-defendants.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Lyle v. State · 527 So. 2d 641 - King v. State

3. “We simply are not prepared to assign to him vested rights in an ill-prepared prosecutor. Except for a claimed “right” not to have the case properly tried, with the ascertainment of truth enhanced, Webb points to nothing which has operated to injure his posture before the Circuit Court for the City of Salem.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Bennett v. Commonwealth