United States v. Thompson’s Empirical Analysis
82 F.3d 849 · 1996
Citation profile
32 federal appellate · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 70 later decisions — most recently December 2024 · most notably State v. Barnes (2002), State v. McKee (2001)
32 federal appellate · 22 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. § 924 · 26 U.S.C. § 5841 (§ 201 of the Gun Control Act of 1968) · 26 U.S.C. § 5845 (§ 201 of the Gun Control Act of 1968) · 26 U.S.C. § 5861 (§ 201 of the Gun Control Act of 1968)
Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · United States v. Olano · Griffin v. California · Bailey v. United States · Staples 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 70 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A]n error cannot be deemed plain if there is no controlling case law on point and the authority in other circuits is split.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“must have played some role in the predicate drug trafficking crime”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The fact that a citizen has a constitutional right to remain silent-when he is questioned has no bearing on the probative significance of his silence before he has any contact with the police. '... When a citizen is under no official compulsion whatever, either to speak or to remain silent, I see no reason why his voluntary decision to do one or the other should raise any issue under the Fifth Amendment. For in determining whether the privilege is applicable, the question is whether petitioner was in a position to have his testimony compelled and then asserted his privilege, not simply whether he was silent. A different view ignores the clear words of the Fifth Amendment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.