United States v. Pierce’s Empirical Analysis
893 F.2d 669 · 1990
Citation profile
116 federal appellate · 1 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 148 later decisions — most recently August 2022 · most notably United States v. Solis (2002), United States v. Mondello (1991)
116 federal appellate · 1 district · 10 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. § 3500 · 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 846 (§ 406 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Coolidge v. New Hampshire · Pinkerton v. United States · Sedillo v. United States · United States v. Jacobsen · Raphan v. United States
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 148 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“if a timely request is made by the defense and some indication exists in the record that the notes meet the Jencks Act definition of a statement”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“must have signed, read, or heard the entire statement read.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The term “statement,” as used in ... this section in relation to any witness called by the United States, means— (1) a written statement made by said witness and signed or otherwise adopted or approved by him; (2) a stenographic, mechanical, electrical, or other recording, or a transcription thereof, which is a substantially verbatim recital of an oral statement made by said witness and recorded contemporaneously with the making of such oral statement; or (3) a statement, however taken or recorded, or a transcription thereof, if any, made by said witness to a grand jury.”
1 later decision 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.