United States v. Gregory’s Empirical Analysis
79 F.3d 973 · 1996
Citation profile
51 federal appellate · 39 district · 28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 152 later decisions — most recently October 2025 · most notably United States v. Holt (2001), United States v. Mendez (1997)
51 federal appellate · 39 district · 28 state decisions — followed in 17 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 28 U.S.C. § 1294
Relies on Terry v. Ohio · Schneckloth v. Bustamonte · Delaware v. Prouse · Brown v. Illinois · Wolf v. People of the State of Colorado
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 152 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he road was winding, the terrain mountainous and the weather condition was windy.”
13 later decisions quote this exact passage“[a] vehicle shall be driven as nearly as practicable entirely within a single lane,”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“as nearly as practical entirely within a single lane ....”
5 later decisions 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.