United States v. Thomas’s Empirical Analysis
120 F.3d 564 · 1997
Citation profile
25 federal appellate · 1 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 71 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2015 · most notably United States v. Cisneros-Gutierrez (2008), United States v. Posada-Rios (1998)
25 federal appellate · 1 district · 6 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. § 2 · 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 846 (§ 406 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Whren v. United States · United States v. Robinson · Missouri v. Continential Insurance Cos. · Robertson v. Methow Valley Citizens Council · United States v. Dunn
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.
“the officers could reasonably believe that the gate provided the principal means of access to the apartment”
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.