United States v. Thomas’s Empirical Analysis
863 F.2d 622 · 1988
Citation profile
120 federal appellate · 2 district · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 196 later decisions — most recently May 2021 · most notably United States v. $19191000 in US Currency R (1994), United States v. Mejia (1991)
120 federal appellate · 2 district · 11 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
Relies on Terry v. Ohio · Florida v. Royer · United States v. Cortez · Adams v. Williams · Vandygriff v. Phillips
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 196 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“whether a reasonably prudent person in the circumstances would be warranted in the belief that his or her safety or that of others was in danger.”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“has reason to believe that the suspect is armed and dangerous, the officer may conduct a limited weapons search.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“In evaluating the lawfulness of [an investigatory] stop, the 'totality of the circumstances ... must be taken into account.”
8 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.