Thomas v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
890 F.2d 18 · 1989
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently July 2016
15 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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 26 U.S.C. § 7431 · 5 U.S.C. § 552 (Freedom of Information Act)
Relies on United States Department of Justice v. Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press · Cox Broadcasting Corp. v. Cohn · Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corp. v. Jacobson · Rodgers v. Hyatt · Lampert 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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“§ 7431. Civil Damages for unauthorized disclosure of returns and return information. (a) In General. (1) Disclosure by employee of United States. If any officer or employee of the United States knowingly, or by reason of negligence, discloses any return or return information with respect to a taxpayer in violation of any provision of section 6103, such taxpayer may bring a civil action for damages against the United States in a district court of the United States. * * * (e) Return; return information. For purposes of this section, the terms “return” and “return information” have the respective meanings given such terms in section 6103(b). * * * *”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The information disclosed in the press release did not come from [the taxpayer's] tax return--not directly, at any rate. It came from the Tax Court's opinion.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Johnson v. Sawyer“every item of information contained in a public document is known to the whole world, so that further dissemination can do no additional harm to privacy”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Johnson v. Sawyer
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.