Thomas v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
376 F.2d 564 · 1967
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently September 1982
13 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
Applies 26 U.S.C. § 1 (Airport and Airway Extension Act of 2008)
Relies on Jones v. United States · Beck v. State of Ohio · United States v. Ventresca · Preston v. United States · Stanford v. Texas
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(b) Grounds for Issuance. A warrant may be issued under this rule to search for and seize any property (2) Designed or intended for use or which is or has been used as the means of committing a criminal offense ; . . . (c) Issuance and Contents. A warrant shall issue only on affidavits sworn to before the judge or commissioner and establishing the grounds for issuing the warrant .”
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.