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2 canonical passages across 2 cases, quoted by 54 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 Brown v. Ohio.

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1 Brown v. Ohio Anchor
scotus · 1977
green “the double jeopardy clause is not such a fragile guarantee that prosecutors can avoid its limitations by the simple expedient of dividing a single crime into a series of temporal or spatial units.” 50
2 In Re Snow
scotus · 1887
green “the double jeopardy clause is not such a fragile guarantee that prosecutors can avoid its limitations by the simple expedient of dividing a single crime into a series of temporal or spatial units.” 4

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