United States v. Thomas’s Empirical Analysis
613 F.2d 787 · 1980
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently February 2017
15 federal appellate · 4 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. § 1461
Relies on Wong Sun v. United States · Coolidge v. New Hampshire · Hamling v. United States · Miller v. California · Sedillo 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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“on the extreme case where contested materials are directed at such a bizarre deviant group that the experience of the trier of fact would be plainly inadequate to judge whether the material appeals to the prurient interest.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“not so far removed from the realm of recognizable sexuality as to render normal jury evaluations inappropriate.”
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.