United States v. Thomas’s Empirical Analysis
155 F.3d 833 · 1998
Citation profile
18 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently January 2016
18 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 876
Relies on United States v. Wynn · United States v. Moore · United States v. Fonner · United States v. Taylor · Lenea v. Lane
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In determining whether subsection[ ](b)(l) ... applies], the court shall consider both conduct that occurred pri- or to the offense and conduct that occurred during the offense; however, conduct that occurred prior to the offense must bé substantially and directly connected to the offense, under the facts of the case taken as a whole.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[i]f the offense involved any conduct evidencing an intent to carry out such threat,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“'if he saw [the victim] on the street, he would take a battery charge,'”
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.