Gregory v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
365 F.2d 203 · 1966
Citation profile
74 federal appellate · 3 district · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 100 later decisions — most recently March 1993 · most notably United States v. Jackson (1977), United States v. Samuel (1970)
74 federal appellate · 3 district · 16 state decisions — followed in 10 states
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 2312
Relies on Holland v. United States · Odell v. Hudspeth · Cwach v. United States · McDonald v. United States · Fitts v. United States
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 100 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“To justify a new trial this alleged error must appear to have seriously affected the fairness of the trial, (citation) The burden of proof to sustain this allegation is on the appellant. (citation) The handling of the defendant during the trial is best regulated by the trial court and is a matter for its sound discretion, (citation) For this court to question the discretion of the trial court, the record needs to show something more than the mere fact that defendant was handcuffed in the presence of the jury, (citation) If, as in the instant case, the record does not show the occurrence was prejudicial, the motion for a new trial will be denied.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.