Thomas v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
343 F.2d 49 · 1965
Citation profile
29 federal appellate · 2 district · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently March 1999 · most notably Levin v. Katzenbach (1966), United States v. Baxter (1973)
29 federal appellate · 2 district · 9 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 18 U.S.C. § 2314 · 28 U.S.C. § 2255 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Brady v. State of Maryland · Berger v. United States · Barbee v. Warden, Maryland Penitentiary · United States of America Ex Rel. Thomas Meers, Relator-Appellee v. Walter H. Wilkins, Warden of Attica State Prison, Attica, New York · Dodd 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 well-recognized rule thus invoked is that a conviction cannot stand where a prosecutor has, either wilfully or negligently, withheld material evidence favorable to the defendant. As the Second Circuit said [in United States v. Zborowski, 271 F.2d 661, 668 (2d Cir. 1959)]: “ ‘The prosecutor must be vigilant to see to it that full disclosure is made at trial of whatever may be in his possession which bears in any material degree on the charge for which a defendant is tried.’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Imbler v. Craven““[A] conviction cannot stand where a prosecutor has, either willfully or negligently, withheld material evidence favorable to the defendant.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Imbler v. Craven
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.