United States v. Thomas’s Empirical Analysis
468 F.2d 422 · 1972
Citation profile
38 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently April 2006 · most notably United States v. Kendall (1985), Nixon v. Sirica (1973)
38 federal appellate · 3 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 Glasser v. United States · Johnson v. Zerbst · McCarthy v. United States · Braverman v. United States · Yi Au Lau v. United States Immigration & Naturalization Service
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“). 7 The provisions of [Rule 11] require the district judge, not someone else, before accepting a plea of guilty, to personally address the accused and determine”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he court shall not enter a judgment upon a plea of guilty unless it is satisfied that there is a factual basis for the plea.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[a]n illegal conspiracy is 'an agreement between two or more persons to commit one or more unlawful acts, and is complete when one or more of the conspirators knowingly commit an act in furtherance of the object of the agreement.'”
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.