United States v. Thomas’s Empirical Analysis
709 F.2d 968 · 1983
Citation profile
22 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 55 later decisions — most recently July 2021 · most notably United States v. Jon-T Chemicals, Inc. (1985), Johnson v. Sawyer (1995)
22 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 15 U.S.C. § 714M
Relies on United States v. Bornstein · Johnson v. United States · United States v. Aerodex, Inc. · Raiford v. Abney · United States v. Thomas
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 55 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Because of the existence of a higher standard of proof and greater procedural protection in a criminal prosecution, a conviction is conclusive as to an issue arising against the criminal defendant in a subsequent civil action.”
3 later decisions 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.