United States v. Thayer’s Empirical Analysis
201 F.3d 214 · 1999
Citation profile
49 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 111 later decisions — most recently November 2023 · most notably United States v. Brennan (2003), United States v. Syme (2002)
49 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 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 United States v. Olano · Sullivan v. Louisiana · United States v. Gaudin · Williams v. United States · Boyde v. California
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 111 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the charge as a whole fairly and adequately submits the issues in the case to the jury.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“violation of any judicial or administrative order, injunction, decree or process.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“-the command or warning violated-is used, not in the sense of legal proceedings generally, but in the sense of a command or order to a specific party, such as a summons or execution issued in a particular action. This narrower reading . . . is also consistent with the general practice-known as ejusdem generis-of construing general language in an enumeration of more specific things in a way that limits the general language to the same class of things enumerated. In the present circumstances, the word”
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.