United States v. Thomas’s Empirical Analysis
11 F.3d 732 · 1993
Citation profile
40 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 71 later decisions — most recently March 2022 · most notably United States v. Canoy (1994), Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. Sears, Roebuck & Co. (2005)
40 federal appellate · 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 18 U.S.C. § 3553 · 18 U.S.C. § 3742 · 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Needler v. Valley National Bank of Arizona · GLK, Inc. v. United States · United States v. Headley · United States v. Poff · United States v. Johnson
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 71 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[U]nder the law of the case doctrine, 'when a court decides upon a rule of law, that decision should continue to govern the same issues in subsequent stages of the same case.'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“if an intervening change in the law, or some other special circumstance, warrants reexamining the claim.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[A] judge who misinterprets her authority has either committed a mistake of law under Sec. 3742(a)(1) or misapplied the guidelines under Sec. 3742(a)(2).”
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.