United States v. Thomas’s Empirical Analysis
167 F.3d 299 · 1999
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 53 later decisions — most recently May 2025 · most notably United States v. Schreane (2003), United States v. Robbins (1999)
17 federal appellate · 10 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 · 18 U.S.C. § 841 (Amendments of 1973 to Federal Law) · 21 U.S.C. § 846 (§ 406 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, Inc. · Barker v. Wingo · Doggett v. United States · United States v. Scheffer · United States v. Loud Hawk
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 53 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“so narrow in scope as to preclude the district court from considering the issue a second time,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Mary Glover Lynda Gates Jimmie Ann Brown Manetta Gant Jacalyn M. Settles and Several Jane Does, on Behalf of Themselves and All Others Similarly Situated v. Perry Johnson, Director, Michigan Department of Corrections Florence R. Crane G. Robert Cotton Thomas K. Eardley, Jr. B. James George, Jr. Duane L. Waters the Michigan Corrections Commissions William Kime, Director, Bureau of Programs Robert Brown, Jr., Director, Bureau of Correctional Facilities Frank Beetham, Director, Bureau of Prison Industries Richard Nelson, Director, Bureau of Field Services Gloria Richardson, Superintendent, Huron Valley Women's Facility Dorothy Costen, Director of Treatment, Huron Valley Women's Facility and Clyde Graven, Sheriff, Kalamazoo County Individually and in Their Official Capacities · Mary Glover v. Perry Johnson, Director, Michigan Department of Correction“repeatedly held that 'unilaterally obtained polygraph evidence is almost never admissible under Evidence Rule 403.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Sharpe“A defendant's failure to assert his rights in a timely fashion weighs heavily against his Sixth Amendment claim.”
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.