United States v. Pace’s Empirical Analysis
922 F.2d 451 · 1990
Citation profile
49 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 58 later decisions — most recently May 2023 · most notably United States v. Cortez (1991), United States v. Ojeda (1994)
49 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 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 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · Glasser v. United States · Johnson v. Mississippi · Fort Wayne Books, Inc. v. Indiana · United States v. Matra
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 58 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]his case is unlike United States v. Caves, 890 F.2d 87 , 94-95 (8th Cir.1989), where we held that presence, plus other circumstances apparent to the arresting officer, created probable cause for an arrest.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Constructive possession of drugs can be established if a person has 'ownership, dominion or control over the contraband itself, or dominion over the premises in which the contraband is concealed.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“insufficient to justify a reasonable inference [the defendant] knew he was driving a car full of cocaine”
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.