United States v. Thomas’s Empirical Analysis
348 F.3d 78 · 2003
Citation profile
37 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 74 later decisions — most recently June 2023 · most notably United States v. Blackwell (2006), United States v. Creech (2005)
37 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
Applies 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 846 (§ 406 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 851 (§ 411 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 963
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Pinkerton v. United States · United States v. Vonn · Rogers v. United States · United States v. Beechum
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 74 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“This Court reviews the district court’s grant or denial of disclosure of an informant for abuse of discretion. United States v. Wilson, 77 F.3d 105, 111 (5th Cir.1996). The district court weighs three factors to determine whether to grant or deny disclosure of an informant’s identity: ‘(1) the level of involvement in the alleged criminal activity, (2) the helpfulness of disclosure to any asserted defense, and (3) the government’s interest in non-disclosure.’ Id.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Generally, an indictment [that] follows the language of the statute under which it is brought is sufficient to give a defendant notice of the crime of which he is charged.”
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.