United States v. Terry’s Empirical Analysis
702 F.2d 299 · 1983
Citation profile
127 federal appellate · 12 district · 24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 230 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2025 · most notably California v. Greenwood (1988), United States v. Nersesian (1987)
127 federal appellate · 12 district · 24 state decisions — followed in 16 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. § 2516 (Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986) · 18 U.S.C. § 2518 (Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986) · 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 843 (§ 403 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 846 (§ 406 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 848 (§ 408 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Glasser v. United States · Johnson v. Zerbst · Franks v. Delaware · Payton v. New York
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 230 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Proof that a judge ... before whom [the witness] had testified as an expert had found that [the witness] had `guessed under oath' was probative of the weight to be accorded to his testimony.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“likelihood of an illicit association between the declarant and the defendant.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“render admissible evidence that is otherwise inadmissible,”
2 later decisions 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.