United States v. Thomas’s Empirical Analysis
294 F.3d 899 · 2002
Citation profile
16 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently March 2024 · most notably United States v. Bothun (2005), United States v. Corral (2003)
16 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 924
Relies on Bourjaily v. United States · United States v. Watts · United States v. Robert Craig, Frank P. North, Jr., Peter v. Pappas and Jack E. Walker · United States v. Fonner · United States v. Martinez De Ortiz
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Actual possession of the firearm need not be established in order to trigger the enhancement. Instead, proof of constructive possession, that is, that the defendant had the power and the intention to exercise dominion or control of the firearm, is sufficient to warrant the enhancement.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the defendant recklessly created a substantial risk of death or serious bodily injury to another person in the course of fleeing from a law enforcement officer.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“that the weapon was connected to the offense. Id.”
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.