United States v. Pace’s Empirical Analysis
10 F.3d 1106 · 1993
Citation profile
77 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 113 later decisions — most recently March 2025 · most notably United States of America v. James Slaughter (2000), United States v. Fields (2007)
77 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 924 · 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 846 (§ 406 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 28 U.S.C. § 753
Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · Bruton v. United States · Delaware v. Van Arsdall · Davis v. Alaska · Ohio v. Roberts
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 113 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“major function [of Rule 403] is limited to excluding matter of scant or cumulative probative force, dragged in the by the heels for the sake of its prejudicial effect.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The exclusion of evidence under Rule 403 should occur only sparingly.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[a]lthough relevant, evidence may be excluded if its probative value is substantially outweighed by the danger of unfair prejudice....”
3 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.