United States v. Thomas’s Empirical Analysis
75 F.2d 369 · 1935
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently July 2009
11 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 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
Relies on St. Louis, Vandalia & Terre Haute Railroad v. Terre Haute & Indianapolis Railroad · Harriman v. Northern Securities Co. · Clark 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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * If he was guilty of bribery, he could not have recovered the bribe money back from the customs officers, and has no better claim against the United States. Clark v. United States, 102 U.S. 322 , 332, 26 L.Ed. 181 ; St. Louis, V. & T. H. R. Co. v. Terre Haute & I. R. R. Co., 145 U.S. 393 , 407, 12 S. Ct. 953 , 36 L.Ed. 748 ; Harriman v. Northern Securities Co., 197 U.S. 244 , 295, 25 S.Ct. 493 , 49 L.Ed. 739 .””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Moneys received or tendered in evidence in any United States Court, or before any officer thereof, which have been paid to or received by any official as a bribe, shall, after the final disposition of the case, proceeding or investigation, be deposited in the registry of the court to be disposed of in accordance with the order of the court, to be subject, however, to the provisions of section 2042 of Title 28.” 28 U.S.C. § 2042 . Withdrawal. “No money deposited shall be withdrawn except by order of court. “In every case in which the right to withdraw money deposited in court has been adjudicated or is not in dispute and such money has remained so deposited for at least five years unclaimed by the person entitled thereto, such court shall cause such money to be deposited in the Treasury in the name and to the credit of the United States. Any claimant entitled any such money may, on petition to the court and upon notice to the United States attorney and full proof of the right thereto, obtain an order directing payment to him.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the [district] court should have heard testimony on the issue of bribery thus raised. [Petitioner] cannot avoid that issue by relying on the presumption of innocence....”
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.