United States v. Tom’s Empirical Analysis
330 F.3d 83 · 2003
Citation profile
38 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently March 2025 · most notably United States v. Casas (2004), United States v. Hall (2006)
38 federal appellate · 2 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 United States v. Olano · Johnson v. United States · Bourjaily v. United States · Sorrells v. United States · Sherman 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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`The essential inquiry in harmless error review is whether the improperly admitted evidence likely affected the outcome of the trial.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“focuses upon whether the defendant was an unwary innocent or, instead, an unwary criminal who readily availed himself of the opportunity to perpetrate the crime.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“evidence of predisposition may be inferred from conversations in which a defendant displays knowledge or experience in the criminal activity under investigation.”
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.