United States v. Thomas’s Empirical Analysis
484 F.2d 909 · 1973
Citation profile
39 federal appellate · 2 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 55 later decisions — most recently March 2018 · most notably United States v. Jewell (1976), United States v. Hatfield (1987)
39 federal appellate · 2 district · 10 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 1001 (Comprehensive Thrift and Bank Fraud Prosecution and Taxpayer Recovery Act of 1990) · 18 U.S.C. § 1202 · 18 U.S.C. § 922 (Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act)
Relies on Morissette v. United States · Lehigh Valley Cooperative Farmers, Inc. v. United States · Mackay v. Nesbett · United States v. Simon · Wiley v. United States
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 55 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(а) It shall be unlawful— (б) for any person in connection with the acquisition ... of any firearm . from a licensed dealer, knowingly to make any false or fictitious oral or written statement . . ., intended or likely to deceive such . . dealer, . with respect to any fact material to the lawfulness of the sale or other disposition of such firearm . . . under the provisions of this Chapter.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Matte v. State“if the jury finds from the evidence beyond a reasonable doubt that the Defendant acted with reckless disregard of whether the statements made were true or with a conscious purpose to avoid learning the truth.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.