United States v. Thomas’s Empirical Analysis
729 F.2d 120 · 1984
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently March 2024 · most notably Security and Law Enforcement Employees District Council American Federation of State County and Municipal Employees v. Carey a III (1984), United States v. Reyes (2002)
13 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 4 U.S.C. § 112
Relies on Terry v. Ohio · Katz v. United States · Schneckloth v. Bustamonte · Morrissey v. Brewer · Coolidge v. New Hampshire
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“parolee's diminished expectation of privacy [for his clothing and person] would necessarily be further diminished while he is in his parole officer's office”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“rationally and reasonably related to the performance of his duty as a parole officer.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“[e]xpectations of privacy can vary, depending on circumstances and location,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.