Thorm v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
59 F.2d 419 · 1932
Citation profile
6 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2016
6 federal appellate ·
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. § 541
Relies on Sheridan v. United States · Falconi v. United States · Ex parte Brede
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“All offenses which may be punished by death, or imprisonment for a term exceeding one year, shall be deemed felonies. All other offenses shall be deemed misdemeanors.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“such petty offenses may be prosecuted upon information or complaint”
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.