United States v. Thomas’s Empirical Analysis
551 F.2d 347 · 1976
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 2 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently August 2012
15 federal appellate · 2 district · 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 Irish Northern Aid Committee v. Attorney General of the United States · United States v. Davis · United States v. Mather · United States v. Brown · National Ass'n of Regional Medical Programs, Inc. v. Mathews
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Because all innocent explanations for this exchange of a tinfoil packet for currency seem so implausible, we affirm the trial court’s finding of probable cause.”
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.