United States v. Thomas’s Empirical Analysis
74 F.3d 701 · 1996
Citation profile
37 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 70 later decisions — most recently May 2024 · most notably CompuServe, Inc. v. Patterson (1996), United States v. Runyan (2002)
37 federal appellate · 2 district ·
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. § 1462 · 18 U.S.C. § 1465 · 18 U.S.C. § 1467 · 18 U.S.C. § 2252 · 18 U.S.C. § 3237 · 18 U.S.C. § 371 · 28 U.S.C. § 2255 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996) · 42 U.S.C. § 1465
Relies on Hamling v. United States · Miller v. California · United States v. American Trucking Associations · Bose Corp. v. Consumers Union of United States, Inc. · Stanley v. Georgia
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 70 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a]s a general rule, this court will not review claims of ineffective counsel that are raised for the first time on appeal. These claims are best brought by a defendant in a post-conviction proceeding under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 so that the parties can develop an adequate record on the issue.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]here is no constitutional impediment to the government's power to prosecute pornography dealers in any district into which the material is sent.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“where the record has been sufficiently developed so as to allow us to evaluate counsel's performance”
2 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.