United States v. Thomas’s Empirical Analysis
430 F.3d 274 · 2005
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 2 district · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions — most recently April 2025 · most notably Hardesty v. Hamburg Township (2006), United States v. Cruz-Mendez (2006)
13 federal appellate · 2 district · 18 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 Terry v. Ohio · Payton v. New York · United States v. Mendenhall · Whren v. United States · United States v. Berkowitz
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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“deploy overbearing tactics that essentially force the individual out of the home”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a show of authority that the Defendant reasonably believed he had no choice but to comply”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]he Fourth Amendment has drawn a firm line at the entrance to the house.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Coffey v. Carroll · Boykin
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.