United States v. Thomas’s Empirical Analysis
794 F.3d 705 · 2015
Citation profile
6
cited by 6 later decisions
1
states following
February 2019
most recently cited
4 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 3553
Relies on Batson v. Kentucky · Arizona v. Fulminante · Carey v. Musladin · Buckley v. Fitzsimmons · Woods v. Dugger
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If the statement made by [the witness] was coerced and demonstrably unreliable, and its admission in evidence ... could not be found to be a harmless error, the defendants would be entitled to a new trial.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[I]f you kill a policem[a]n and are put on trial for the crime, you must expect the courtroom audience to include policemen.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Jones v. Davis
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.