Blockburger v. United States

Blockburger v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued November 24, 1931 Decided January 4, 1932
Full case name	Blockburger v. United States
Citations	284 U.S. 299 (more) 52 S. Ct. 180; 76 L. Ed. 306; 1932 U.S. LEXIS 875
Case history
Prior	50 F.2d 795 (7th Cir. 1931); cert. granted, 284 U.S. 607 (1931).
Holding
If the same act or transaction constitutes a violation of two distinct statutory provisions, the test to be applied to determine whether there is one or two offenses is whether each provision requires proof of an additional fact that the other does not.
Court membership
Chief Justice Charles E. Hughes Associate Justices Oliver W. Holmes Jr. · Willis Van Devanter James C. McReynolds · Louis Brandeis George Sutherland · Pierce Butler Harlan F. Stone · Owen Roberts
Case opinion
Majority	Sutherland, joined by unanimous
Laws applied
U.S. Const., Amend. V, Harrison Narcotics Act

Blockburger v. United States, 284 U.S. 299 (1932), was a case in which the Supreme Court of the United States set an important standard to prevent double jeopardy.^[1]