United States v. Thomas’s Empirical Analysis
757 F.2d 1359 · 1985
Citation profile
143 federal appellate · 16 district · 59 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 289 later decisions — most recently October 2024 · most notably United States v. Maldonado-Rivera (1990), United States v. Locascio (1993)
143 federal appellate · 16 district · 59 state decisions — followed in 26 states
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. § 1961 (§ 901 of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act) · 18 U.S.C. § 1962 (§ 901 of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act) · 18 U.S.C. § 1963 (§ 901 of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act) · 18 U.S.C. § 241 (Church Arson Prevention Act of 1996) · 18 U.S.C. § 371 · 18 U.S.C. § 922 (Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act) · 18 U.S.C. § 924 · 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Illinois v. Gates · Katz v. United States · Blockburger v. United States · United States v. Leon · Brinegar 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 289 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he question always to be asked is whether the use of a trained dog intrudes upon a legitimate expectation of privacy.”
16 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]here [was] nothing more the officer could have or should have done under these circumstances to be sure his search would be legal.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“strong evidence of defendants' past attempts to interfere with the judicial process, and defendants were alleged to be part of a group that possessed the means to harm jurors,”
5 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.