United States v. Thompson’s Empirical Analysis
559 F.2d 552 · 1977
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently December 2016 · most notably United States v. Ashley (1978), United States v. Hoyos (1978)
20 federal appellate · 1 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. § 2113
Relies on School Board of Richmond v. State Board of Education · United States v. Telfaire · Isaacs v. United States · Tucker v. United States · Amsler 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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“it was not certain the testimony of this witness would be unequivocally advantageous to the defendant, the testimony would be cumulative, and there was no reasonable assurance the witness could be secured.”
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.