United States v. Gregorio’s Empirical Analysis
497 F.2d 1253 · 1974
Citation profile
72 federal appellate · 2 district · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 103 later decisions — most recently September 2012 · most notably State v. Williams (1983), United States v. Cook (1979)
72 federal appellate · 2 district · 22 state decisions — followed in 15 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
Relies on Gideon v. Wainwright · Powell v. State of Alabama Patterson · Gagnon v. Scarpelli · Furman v. Georgia · Pointer v. Texas
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 103 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“no samples were admitted into evidence, no samples were subject to chemical analysis, and there was no expert testimony from medically or scientifically trained persons;”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“prevent the loss of confidence in courts as instruments of justice which secret trials would engender.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[assures] . . . the opportunity to observe —and, it is to be hoped, to understand— all stages of the trial not involving purely legal matters generally incomprehensible to the layman in order to prevent the loss of confidence in courts as instruments of justice which secret trials would engender.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Dasher v. Stripling
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.