Gillespie v. Ryan’s Empirical Analysis
837 F.2d 628 · 1988
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 3 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently September 2006
3 federal appellate · 3 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2253 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Blockburger v. United States · North Carolina v. Pearce · Rose v. Lundy · Griffith v. Kentucky · Missouri v. Hunter
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“... a legislature specifically authorizes cumulative punishment under two statutes, regardless of whether those two statutes proscribe the “same” conduct under Blockburger , a court’s task of statutory construction is at an end and the prosecutor may seek and the trial court and the jury may impose cumulative punishment under such statutes in a single trial.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hakeem v. Beyer“that the double jeopardy clause serves three primary purposes. 'It protects against a second prosecution for the same offense after acquittal. It protects against a second prosecution for the same offense after conviction. And it protects against multiple punishments for the same offense.'”
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.