United States v. Gary’s Empirical Analysis
528 F.3d 324 · 2008
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently June 2025
7 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
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 Illinois v. Gates · United States v. Leon · Franks v. Delaware · Nunez v. United States · United States v. Angle
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“another person placed the offending bags [containing drugs] in the trash cans, or that some other person moved the unmarked can from its correct spot behind someone else's home to a place behind [the individual's] home.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“trash cans placed directly behind a home are used by those who live there”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“usually generated by the house closest to those cans .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.