United States v. Gallo’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
32
cited by 32 later decisions
2
states following
July 1985
most recently cited
17 federal appellate · 3 district · 2 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 1955
Relies on Stirone v. United States · Bain Jr · Wood v. Georgia · Mesarosh v. United States · Gaither 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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When the framers of the Bill of Rights directed in the Fifth Amendment that 'no person shall be held to answer for a capital or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a grand jury,' they were not engaging in a mere verbal exercise.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“a rubber stamp endorsing the wishes of a prosecutor as a result of the needless presentation of hearsay testimony in grand jury proceedings.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“failed to supply the second grand jury with the full and complete record of the proceedings before the first grand jury.”
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.