United States v. David Lee Pace’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
35 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently April 2023 · most notably United States v. Linn (1989), United States v. Burrows (1994)
35 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. § 2113 · 28 U.S.C. § 1291
Relies on Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Johnson v. Zerbst · Gideon v. Wainwright · United States v. Wade · Escobedo v. Illinois
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“of judicial proceedings. It was a crime. The purpose of the Sixth Amendment right to counsel is to assure aid at trial. It does not grant defendant the right to legal advice in the commission, concealment or avoidance of future crimes. Moreover, defendant did not need legal advice. He knew what he was doing was a crime and repeatedly questioned Farley to insure that he was not”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“First, the defendant must identify the lesser-included offense. Second, the defendant must demonstrate that a rational jury could find that defendant guilty of the lesser offense but not the greater.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]he right to counsel exists to protect the accused during trial-type confrontations with the prosecutor.”
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.