Thomas v. Whitworth’s Empirical Analysis
136 F.3d 756 · 1998
Citation profile
8 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently June 2024
8 federal appellate ·
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 Chapman v. State of California · Gomez v. United States · Peretz v. United States · Barakat v. Life Insurance · United Mine Workers of America 1992 Benefit Plan v. Leckie Smokeless Coal Co.
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“magistrate judges draw their authority entirely from an exercise of Congressional power under Article I of the Constitution.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the harm to Appellant . . . flows not from the adequacy or inadequacy of the magistrate judge's handling of the jury selection process, but rather from the fact that Congress did not afford magistrate judges the power to preside over any aspect of the trial of a civil lawsuit without the express consent of the parties”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“if one of the parties in a civil lawsuit pending before a district court states his unwillingness to consent to a trial before a magistrate judge, the district court cannot designate a magistrate judge to preside over the trial.”
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.