United States v. Thomas’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 1 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently January 2015
4 federal appellate · 1 district · 6 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1821 · 28 U.S.C. § 524
Relies on Go-Bart Importing Co. v. United States · Railroad Commission v. Maxcy · Newman v. United States · Levin v. Katzenbach · United States v. Maresca
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The prosecutorial workload of the United States attorney in the District of Columbia is extremely heavy, and his determination to investigate his cases thoroughly and to interview all prospective witnesses is highly commendable. Nonetheless, in his zeal to investigate he loses sight of the danger that by sending a “summons” to a prospective witness he may cause him not only to appear at his office at the time indicated, but to arrive there in a frame of mind to say ;what he thinks the United States attorney wants to hear, lest the chastising power that resides in the United States Courthouse be visited upon him. The danger that these phony summonses will put the recipient too much under the will of the United States attorney is surely inadvertent on the latter’s part. The danger nonetheless exists, and the practice ought not be continued”.”
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.