Thomas v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
252 F.2d 182 · 1958
Citation profile
6 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently April 1970
6 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
Relies on Glasser v. United States · Hagan v. United States
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Examination of the record shows a careful and spirited defense overwhelmed by a great quantity of evidence tending to show the guilt of appellant. The defense in no way indicates that appellant’s attorney was laboring under such an illness as to substantially impair his effectiveness. It has been held that without some showing in the record that the illness of counsel was of such a nature as to have affected the defense presented it will not be held to be a denial of assistance of counsel. Hagan v. United States, 10 Cir., 9 F.2d 562 .” 3”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Gueldner v. Heyd
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.