United States v. Thweatt’s Empirical Analysis
433 F.2d 1226 · 1970
Citation profile
31 federal appellate · 4 district · 52 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 98 later decisions — most recently April 2012 · most notably 94 Wash. 2d 216 - State v. Green (1980), United States v. DiGilio (1976)
31 federal appellate · 4 district · 52 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 · Carroll v. United States · Brinegar v. United States · Chimel v. California · Sibron v. State of New York Peters
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 98 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When there is a possibility of convicting the defendant of either grand or petit larceny offenses which carry significantly different penalties and which are distinguished solely by the value of the property taken it is essential that the government introduce evidence of that value in order to give the jury a firm basis upon which it can render a verdict.”
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.