United States v. Thomas’s Empirical Analysis
768 F.2d 611 · 1985
Citation profile
25 federal appellate · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently February 2019 · most notably United States v. Douglas (1987), United States v. Espinoza-Seanez (1988)
25 federal appellate · 6 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 18 U.S.C. § 2 · 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 843 (§ 403 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 846 (§ 406 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Glasser v. United States · Pinkerton v. United States · Michel v. United States · Bell v. United States · United States v. Bell
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is not necessary that the evidence exclude every reasonable hypothesis of innocence or be wholly inconsistent with every conclusion except that of guilt, provided a reasonable trier of fact could find that the evidence establishes guilt beyond a reasonable doubt. A jury is free to choose among reasonable constructions of the evidence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“(1) ... the buyer is one of the only two participants and (2) ... is a minor figure in a complex conspiracy so as to raise questions of whether he knew of the scope of the conspiracy.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“by opinion or reputation evidence or otherwise.”
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.