United States v. Thomas’s Empirical Analysis
524 F.3d 855 · 2008
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 4 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently December 2020 · most notably United States v. Bain (2009), United States v. Munoz (2010)
10 federal appellate · 4 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
Relies on Terry v. Ohio · Adams v. Williams · Kyles v. Whitley · Kimbrough v. United States · Nix v. Williams
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Even if the police were not actively pursuing an alternative line of investigation at the time of police error .., the government may well be able to establish [inevitable discovery].”). See also Wayne R. Lafave, Search and Seizure: A Treatise on the Fourth Amendment 365-68 (5th ed. 2012), explaining that a prior commencement requirement”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“While some courts have taken the position that the inevitable discovery doctrine applies only where "the government was actively pursuing a substantial, alternative line of investigation at the time of the constitutional violation," such an absolute limitation is unsound, as it "allows for the exclusion of evidence that inevitably would have been discovered."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“(1) there was a reasonable probability that the evidence would have been discovered by lawful means in the absence of police misconduct, and (2) that the government was actively pursuing a substantial, alternative line of investigation at the time of the constitutional violation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.