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guarantee against double jeopardy

Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court

Definitions from Case Law

From 409 U.S. 505 - Robinson v. Neil · 1973Most cited · 692 citing opinions

its practical result is to prevent a trial from taking place at all, rather than to prescribe procedural rules that govern the conduct of a trial

How often courts cite the case defining “guarantee against double jeopardy”

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Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “guarantee against double jeopardy” — 692 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.