Thor v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
574 F.2d 215 · 1978
Citation profile
33 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently March 2024 · most notably United States v. Nivica (1989), United States v. Matthews (1994)
33 federal appellate · 1 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 922 (Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act) · 28 U.S.C. § 2255 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Haines v. Kerner · United States v. Nixon · Stone v. Powell · Washington v. Texas · Davis 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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Where counsel has filed an appeal but has failed to raise various points, petitioner is entitled to relief if he had an arguable chance of success with respect to these contentions. Hooks v. Roberts, 5 Cir. 1973, 480 F.2d 1196 , cert. denied, 1974, 414 U.S. 1163 , 94 S.Ct. 926 , 39 L.Ed.2d 116 . However, if it can be determined that appeal would have been futile with respect to those errors that counsel failed to raise, then petitioner is not entitled to relief.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Robinson v. State · O'Guin v. Foltz“[e]ven those nonconstitutional claims that could not have been asserted on direct appeal can be raised on collateral review only if the alleged error constituted 'a fundamental defect which inherently results in a complete miscarriage of justice'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“need not establish--as a prerequisite to habeas relief--that he had some chance of success on appeal.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. White v. Johnson
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.