same offense
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 206 U.S. 333 - Grafton v. United States · 1907Most cited · 517 citing opinions
double jeopardy
If a person be tried for an offense in a tribunal deriving its jurisdiction and authority from the United States, and is acquitted or convicted, he cannot again be tried for the same offense in another tribunal deriving its jurisdiction and authority from the United States.
How often courts cite the case defining “same offense”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “same offense” — 517 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining case as a whole, not verified uses of the term. The dip in the most recent years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the latest years.