Thomas v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
398 F.2d 531 · 1967
Citation profile
44 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently June 2017 · most notably United States v. Roselli (1970), United States v. Hyde (1971)
44 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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. § 2
Relies on Pinkerton v. United States · Stirone v. United States · Russell v. United States · Nye & Nissen v. United States · Bain Jr
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 effect of the Court's action was to narrow, not widen, the issues the defendant was called on to meet”
2 later decisions 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.