United States v. McCoy’s Empirical Analysis
721 F.2d 473 · 1983
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently February 2017
6 federal appellate · 6 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 18 U.S.C. § 1111 · 18 U.S.C. § 3
Relies on Blockburger v. United States · Ashe v. Swenson · Illinois v. Vitale · Government of the Virgin Islands v. Aquino · United States v. Head
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“To date the guarantee against double jeopardy ... in successive prosecutions ... has been construed to prohibit a second prosecution based upon evidence adduced in a first prosecution when that evidence would support a conviction in both.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“acquittal can only be explained as the resolution favorably to the accused of a necessary element of proof of the second charge”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Eggleston
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.