Thomson v. Marsh’s Empirical Analysis
884 F.2d 113 · 1989
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 1 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently July 2023 · most notably Luck v. Southern Pacific Transportation Co. (1990), Bluestein v. Skinner (1990)
16 federal appellate · 1 district · 8 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 Skinner v. Railway Labor Executives' Assn. · National Treasury Employees Union v. Von Raab · Brown v. 1250 Twenty-Fourth Street Associates Ltd. Partnership · Thomson v. Weinberger
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“discharge duties fraught with such risks of injury to others that even a momentary lapse of attention can have disastrous consequences”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“random drug tests do not violate the Fourth Amendment in limited circumstances where important governmental interests outweigh individuals' expectations of privacy.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the maintenance and construction of steam-fittings for chemical test chambers and toxic waste drains.”
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.