United States v. Leung Tak Lun’s Empirical Analysis
944 F.2d 642 · 1991
Citation profile
45 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 73 later decisions — most recently November 2021 · most notably United States v. Horodner (1993), United States v. Wharton (2003)
45 federal appellate · 1 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 Abney v. United States · Vandygriff v. Phillips · Hannahville Indian Community v. United States · Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Corp. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · Oregon v. Kennedy
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 73 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“conduct giving rise to the successful motion for mistrial was intended to provoke the defendant into moving for a mistrial.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[o]nly where the governmental conduct in question is intended to 'goad' the defendant into moving for a mistrial may a defendant raise the bar of double jeopardy to a second trial after having succeeded in aborting the first on his own motion.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“However, factual findings concerning governmental conduct, upon which the denial is based, are reviewed for 'clear error.'”
4 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.