United States v. Thompson’s Empirical Analysis
533 F.2d 1006 · 1976
Citation profile
30 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently June 2000 · most notably United States v. Mealy (1988), United States v. Hamilton (1982)
30 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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 · Howard v. United States · Brooks v. Tennessee · United Housing Foundation, Inc. v. Forman · Schreiner 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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“1. The conspiracy described in the indictment was willfully formed, and was existing at or about the time alleged; 2. The accused willfully became a member of the conspiracy; 3. One of the conspirators thereafter knowingly committed at least one of the overt acts charged in the indictment, at or about the time and place alleged; and 4. Such overt act was knowingly done in furtherance of some object or purpose of the conspiracy, as charged.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“under the direction and surveillance of government agents to obtain evidence against the coconspirators”
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.