United States v. Thomas’s Empirical Analysis
676 F.2d 531 · 1982
Citation profile
44 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions — most recently July 2019 · most notably United States v. Morrow (1992), State v. Reynolds (1990)
44 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. § 2 · 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 846 (§ 406 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Glasser v. United States · Michelson v. United States · Michel v. United States · Rust v. Johnson · Massiah 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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“intent to distribute a controlled substance may be inferred solely from possession of a large amount of the substance”). We likewise are unpersuaded by his argument that the government did not prove a”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“in federal courts, law enforcement officials have been allowed to testify as experts in order to establish the modus operandi of particular crimes”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“introduced by a defendant to show circumstantially that he is unlikely to have committed the crime for which he is accused[.]”
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.