Thomas v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
419 F.2d 1203 · 1969
Citation profile
21 federal appellate · 2 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently January 2000 · most notably United States v. Springfield (1987), United States v. Lesina (1987)
21 federal appellate · 2 district · 4 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. Dixon · United States v. Barbour · Story v. United States · People v. Asan
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[U]nder the law an accidental killing may be second degree murder, manslaughter, or no crime at all, depending on the degree of recklessness involved. (Footnote omitted).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“receive[s] no guidance on the issue from the trial court,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“a one-sided view of the evidence is obviously improper”
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.