United States v. Thomas’s Empirical Analysis
134 F.3d 975 · 1998
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently September 2016
7 federal appellate · 2 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 Sherman v. United States · Jacobson v. United States · United States v. Bonanno · United States v. Citro · United States v. Skarie
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[f]or the jury to find predisposition beyond a reasonable doubt, it must consider the defendant’s character. Although we have not labelled it as such, the well-settled rule that character must be considered is tantamount to a holding that it is an “essential element” of the defense, and we explicitly recognize it as such here.... [Bjecause Thomas’ character was an essential element relevant to the determination of whether he was predisposed to engage in large-scale drug trafficking, the proffered evidence, which was far more probative than prejudicial as to the question whether he had the requisite state-of-mind prior to [the government informant’s] repeated solicitation of him, was admissible under Rule 405(b).”
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.