Thomas v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
15
cited by 15 later decisions
1
states following
March 2018
most recently cited
15 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Chapman v. State of California · McMann v. Richardson · McCleskey v. Zant · Cashell 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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Where a defendant has failed to raise an available challenge to his conviction on direct appeal, he may not raise that issue on collateral attack unless he shows both cause for his failure to do so and prejudice as a result of his failure.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“prohibits subsequent... consideration of claims not raised, and thus defaulted, in the first [collateral] proceeding”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“alcohol intoxication is considered to be a matter of common knowledge.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In Re BL
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.