Luce v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
531 federal appellate · 113 district · 834 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 2,249 later decisions (5 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2025 · most notably United States v. Paladino (2005), Ohler v. United States (2000)
531 federal appellate · 113 district · 834 state decisions — followed in 46 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedUnited States v. Luce (from Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on United States v. Hasting · Brooks v. Tennessee · New Jersey v. Portash · LaRocca v. United States
Cited together with Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, Inc. · Strickland v. Washington · Chapman v. State of California · Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · New Jersey v. Portash
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 2,249 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A reviewing court is handicapped in any effort to rule on subtle evidentiary questions outside a factual context.”
86 later decisions quote this exact passage“any motion, whether made before or during trial, to exclude anticipated prejudicial evidence before the evidence is actually offered.”
20 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“to raise and preserve for review the claim of improper impeachment with a prior conviction, a defendant must testify.”
17 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.