United States v. Thomas’s Empirical Analysis
593 F.3d 752 · 2010
Citation profile
13 federal appellate ·
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Iowa Southern District Court)
Relationships
Applies 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Old Chief v. United States · Sisson v. Ruby · Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp. v. LTV Corp. · Thompson v. Virginia · Bridwell 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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“extremely similar to the crime at issue, evidence of the act will usually be rendered irrelevant only by an enormous lapse of time.”
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.