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10 canonical passages across 6 cases, quoted by 502 opinions in total. These passages cluster together because the same opinions keep quoting them side by side: they state parts of one doctrine. The anchor passage is from Ashe v. Swenson.
| # | Case | Flag | Canonical passage | Citers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ashe v. Swenson Anchor | green | “when an issue of ultimate fact has once been determined by a valid and final judgment, that issue cannot again be litigated between the same parties in any future lawsuit.” | 204 |
| 2 | Ashe v. Swenson | green | “means simply that when an issue of ultimate fact has once been determined by a valid and final judgment, that issue cannot again be litigated between the same parties in any future lawsuit.” | 153 |
| 3 | Ashe v. Swenson | green | “examine the record of a prior proceeding, taking into account the pleadings, evidence, charge, and other relevant matter, and conclude whether a rational jury could have grounded its verdict upon an issue other than that which the defendant seeks to foreclose from consideration.” | 72 |
| 4 | United States v. Felix | green | “a mere overlap in proof between two prosecutions does not establish a double jeopardy violation.” | 22 |
| 5 | United States v. Brackett | green | “if one of the facts necessarily determined in the former trial is an essential element of the subsequent prosecution.” | 12 |
| 6 | United States v. Grover Lamar Lee | green | “when a fact is not necessarily determined in a former trial, the possibility that it may have been does not prevent re-examination of that issue.” | 12 |
| 7 | United States v. Brackett | green | “bars relitigation only of those facts necessarily determined in the first trial.” | 11 |
| 8 | Yeager v. United States | green | “the record of a prior proceeding, taking into account the pleadings, evidence, charge, and other relevant matter, and conclude whether a rational jury could have grounded its verdict upon an issue other than that which the defendant seeks to foreclose from consideration.” | 11 |
| 9 | Currier v. Virginia | green | “ashe forbids a second trial only if to secure a conviction the prosecution must prevail on an issue the jury necessarily resolved in the defendant's favor in the first trial.” | 3 |
| 10 | United States v. Grover Lamar Lee | green | “fact is not necessarily determined in a former trial, the possibility that it may have been does not prevent re-examination of that issue.” | 2 |
A red or yellow flag on a member means the underlying case has negative treatment: for those, check the case page before relying on the passage.