Thomas v. Roberts’s Empirical Analysis
2003
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2025 · most notably Safford Unified School District 1 v. Redding (2009), Jesse Daniel Buckley v. Hon. Bobby Haddock (2008)
1 federal appellate · 1 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 Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Anderson v. Creighton · Hope v. Pelzer · Wilson v. Layne · New Jersey v. T. L. O.
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“decisions of the Supreme Court, this court, or the highest court of the state in which the case arose”
3 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.