United States v. Thomas’s Empirical Analysis
49 F.3d 253 · 1995
Citation profile
49 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 97 later decisions — most recently April 2014 · most notably United States v. Page (2000), United States v. Owusu (2000)
49 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 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. § 3161 (§ 101 of the Speedy Trial Act of 1974) · 18 U.S.C. § 3164 (§ 101 of the Speedy Trial Act of 1974) · 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on United States v. Ron Pair Enterprises, Inc. · Solem v. Helm · Caminetti v. United States · Mistretta v. United States · Soberon 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 97 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“will not engage in a proportionality analysis except in cases where the penalty imposed is death or life in prison without possibility of parole.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“It is 'the sentencing judge ... [who] has the prerogative to make a determination of the quantity of drugs involved in a scheme and to sentence accordingly.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[p]hysical condition . . . is not ordinarily relevant in determining whether a sentence should be outside the applicable guideline range.”
2 later decisions 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.