Thomas v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
189 F.2d 494 · 1951
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 2 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently March 2007 · most notably Landsman v. United States (1953), United States v. Monasterski (1977)
20 federal appellate · 2 district · 4 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 McNally v. Hill · James Cathcart v. William Robinson · Niewiadomski v. United States · Woodward v. United States · Illinois Bell Telephone Co. v. Slattery
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he offices and duties of a parent are * * * `infinitely various.' Some have no connection whatever with making provision for the child; and many of the benefits of such a relationship, under given circumstances, would be much more important than the making of such provision. * * * Some of the most worthwhile, precious and cherished things in one's life may come therefrom, wholly separate and apart from rights of support and maintenance * * *.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The ordinary meaning of a person standing in loco parentis would, therefore, seem to be a person standing in the relation of, or assuming the relation of a parent to another.”
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.