United States v. Thomas’s Empirical Analysis
42 F.3d 823 · 1994
Citation profile
11 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently July 2016
11 federal appellate ·
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. § 2113 · 18 U.S.C. § 924 · 21 U.S.C. § 851 (§ 411 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Custis v. United States · Nichols v. United States · Invex Holdings, N.V. v. Equitable Life Insurance · United States v. Ullyses-Salazar · United States v. Munoz
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] district court, when sentencing a defendant classified as a career offender under section 4B1.1, cannot entertain a constitutional challenge to the underlying convictions except in a case in which the defendant's right to counsel had been denied.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the statute under which the defendant is sentenced explicitly provides the right to attack collaterally prior convictions used to enhance the sentence;”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“state judge [in the underlying state-court conviction] failed to inform [Thomas] of several of his constitutional rights when [Thomas] pleaded guilty”
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.