United States v. Thomas’s Empirical Analysis
159 F.3d 296 · 1998
Citation profile
55 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 84 later decisions — most recently December 2016 · most notably United States v. Austin (2005), Xiong v. Immigration and Naturalization Service (1999)
55 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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 Perez v. United States · United States v. Shannon · United States v. Staszcuk · United States v. Sivils · United States v. Boulahanis
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 84 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“it is difficult to maintain on a priori grounds that sex is physically dangerous to 16 year old girls,”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“a serious potential risk of physical injury to another”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“medical literature which indicated that a 13 year old is unlikely to appreciate fully or be able to cope effectively with the disease risks and fertility risks of intercourse and that if she does become pregnant it is likely to be a high risk pregnancy both for her and the fetus.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.