Thomas v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
281 F.2d 132 · 1960
Citation profile
30 federal appellate · 1 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 1997 · most notably Wong Sun v. United States (1963), State v. Degraffenreid (1972)
30 federal appellate · 1 district · 7 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 Glasser v. United States · Brinegar v. United States · Draper v. United States · Elkins v. United States · Rios 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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * The burden is on the appellant to show both error and prejudice, Goldstein v. United States, 8 Cir., 63 F.2d 609 , 614, and ‘error which in a close case might call for a reversal may be disregarded as harmless where the evidence of guilt is strong.’ Garner v. United States, 8 Cir., 277 F.2d 242 , 245, citing Glasser v. United States, 315 U.S. 60 , 67, 62 S.Ct. 457 , 86 L.Ed. 680 ; Homan v. United States, 8 Cir., 279 F.2d 767 , 773. This is not a close case.””
4 later decisions 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.