People v. Smith

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• observing that “a defendant who commits one criminal act that violates the laws of two different sovereigns has committed two different offenses for double jeopardy purposes”
• applying the Blockburger 1 “same elements” test to the multiple-punishment prong of the Double Jeopardy Clause
• “Because each of the crimes for which defendant here was convicted, first-degree felony murder and armed robbery, has an element that the other does not, they are not the ‘same offense’ and, therefore, defendant may be punished for each.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

40 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• McCORMICK v. CARRIER
  Michigan Supreme Court· 2010-07-31· cited 340×
• People v. Chambers
  Michigan Court of Appeals· 2007-12-10· cited 271×
• People v. Duenaz
  Michigan Court of Appeals· 2014-07-10· cited 267×
• People of Michigan v. Vicki Renee Dickinson
  Michigan Court of Appeals· 2017-08-15· cited 191×
• People v. Strickland
  Michigan Court of Appeals· 2011-07-28· cited 183×
• People v. Gibbs
  Michigan Court of Appeals· 2013-02-14· cited 178×
• Trentadue v. Buckler Automatic Lawn Sprinkler Company
  Michigan Supreme Court· 2007-07-25· cited 177×
• People v. Garland
  Michigan Court of Appeals· 2009-10-15· cited 160×
• People v. Aceval
  Michigan Court of Appeals· 2009-01-07· cited 149×
• People v. Ream
  Michigan Supreme Court· 2008-06-11· cited 143×
• People v. Gayheart
  Michigan Court of Appeals· 2009-07-30· cited 140×
• People v. Kammeraad
  Michigan Court of Appeals· 2014-10-07· cited 113×
• People v. Williams
  Michigan Court of Appeals· 2011-09-15· cited 109×
• People v. Miller
  Michigan Supreme Court· 2015-07-20· cited 105×
• People v. McDonald
  Michigan Court of Appeals· 2011-07-12· cited 105×
• Petersen v. Magna Corp.
  Michigan Supreme Court· 2009-07-31· cited 81×
• People v. Perry
  Michigan Court of Appeals· 2016-10-27· cited 78×
• People v. Light
  Michigan Court of Appeals· 2010-11-23· cited 71×
• People v. Hallak
  Michigan Court of Appeals· 2015-05-28· cited 50×
• People v. McGee
  Michigan Court of Appeals· 2008-09-16· cited 43×

Cites

50 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Blockburger v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1931-12-11· cited 10,676×
• North Carolina v. Pearce
  Supreme Court· 1969-06-23· cited 7,763×
• Ashe v. Swenson
  Supreme Court· 1970-04-20· cited 4,277×
• Benton v. Maryland
  Supreme Court· 1969-06-23· cited 4,063×
• People v. Carines
  Michigan Supreme Court· 1999-07-27· cited 3,769×
• Brown v. Ohio
  Supreme Court· 1977-06-16· cited 3,552×
• Missouri v. Hunter
  Supreme Court· 1983-01-19· cited 2,324×
• United States v. Dixon
  Supreme Court· 1993-06-28· cited 2,221×
• Whalen v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1980-04-16· cited 1,789×
• Grady v. Corbin
  Supreme Court· 1990-05-29· cited 1,620×
• Albernaz v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1981-03-09· cited 1,588×
• Ball v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1985-03-26· cited 1,092×
• Bartkus v. Illinois
  Supreme Court· 1959-06-08· cited 1,084×
• Ohio v. Johnson
  Supreme Court· 1984-08-02· cited 1,064×
• Gore v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1958-10-13· cited 885×
• Robinson v. City of Detroit
  Michigan Supreme Court· 2000-07-18· cited 662×
• Nielsen
  Supreme Court· 1889-05-13· cited 642×
• Heath v. Alabama
  Supreme Court· 1985-12-03· cited 631×
• Gavieres v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1911-04-03· cited 625×
• Harris v. Oklahoma
  Supreme Court· 1977-06-29· cited 618×