Thomas v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
327 F.2d 795 · 1964
Citation profile
30 federal appellate · 1 district · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 53 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2009 · most notably United States v. DiFrancesco (1980), State v. Ryan (1981)
30 federal appellate · 1 district · 13 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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. § 1708 · 18 U.S.C. § 3651
Relies on Burns v. United States · Roberts v. United States · Fauci v. United States · Cooper v. United States · Yates 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 53 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The purpose of probation is to permit the judge to give the convicted person an opportunity to amend his ways and to so have his freedom under conditions, or at least to have such freedom after a short period of imprisonment. It is an act of grace to the one convicted and it is granted as a privilege, not as a right. Yates v. United States, 308 F.2d 737 (10th Cir.); Burns v. United States, 287 U.S. 216 , 53 S.Ct. 154 , 77 L.Ed. 266 . The pressure upon the individual during the period of probation is of course the possibility of having to serve the sentence imposed, or of having the sentence imposed. Roberts v. United States, 320 U.S. 264 , 64 S.Ct. 113 , 88 L.Ed. 41 . The last sentence of 18 U.S.C. § 3653 states that the court may revoke probation and require the prisoner to serve ‘sentence imposed, or any lesser sentence . . . ’ This means in the case at bar the court could and did require appellant to serve any part or all of the original sentence, execution of a portion of which was suspended to permit the release on parole.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“give the convicted person an opportunity to mend his ways and to so have his freedom under conditions, or at least to have such freedom after a short period of imprisonment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Porth v. Templar
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.