Gregg v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
271 federal appellate · 24 district · 124 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 512 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2023 · most notably United States v. Harris (1976), United States v. Robin (1977)
271 federal appellate · 24 district · 124 state decisions — followed in 18 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Kirkpatrick v. Preisler
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 512 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]here are no formal limitations on the [ ] contents [of presentence reports], and they may rest on hearsay and contain information bearing no relation whatever to the crime with which the defendant is charged”
31 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““(c) Presentence Investigation (1) When made. The probation service of the court shall make a pre-sentence investigation and report to the court before the imposition of sentence or the granting of probation unless the court otherwise directs. The report shall not be submitted to the court or its contents disclosed to anyone unless the defendant has pleaded guilty or has been found guilty.” (Emphasis added.)”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Whoever assaults any person having lawful charge, control, or custody of any mail matter or of any money or other property of the United States, with intent to rob, steal, or purloin such mail matter, money, or other property of the United States, or robs any such person of mail matter, or of any money, or other property of the United States, shall, for the first offense, be imprisoned not more than ten years; and if in effecting or attempting to effect such robbery he wounds the person having custody of such mail, money-, or other property of the United States, or puts his life in jeopardy by the use of a dangerous weapon, or for a subsequent offense, shall be imprisoned twenty-five years.”
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.