United States v. Thomson’s Empirical Analysis
113 F.2d 643 · 1940
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 1 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 1967 · most notably 45 Cal. 2d 755 - People v. Martin (1955), Goldstein v. United States (1942)
14 federal appellate · 1 district · 4 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
Relies on Agnello v. United States · Marron v. United States · Gouled v. United States · United States v. Lefkowitz · Go-Bart Importing Co. 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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The smuggled diamond may be so skillfully concealed that much time is required for the searching officers to locate it, whereas the defendant may be sitting in his still house surrounded by vats of liquor, in the second search, and no time at all required to complete the search. In other words, the reasonableness of the search depends upon the facts in each case, and this applies to. the length of the search and the quantity seized.””
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.