United States v. Thomas’s Empirical Analysis
893 F.2d 1066 · 1990
Citation profile
62 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 97 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2024 · most notably United States v. X-Citement Video, Inc. (1994), Hilao v. Estate of Marcos (1994)
62 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 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. § 2 · 18 U.S.C. § 2251 (Child Pornography Prevention Act of 1996) · 18 U.S.C. § 3282 · 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 959 · 28 U.S.C. § 1291
Relies on Vandygriff v. Phillips · Hannahville Indian Community v. United States · Gibbons v. Ogden · Local 408, International Brotherhood of Teamsters v. National Labor Relations Board · United States v. McConney
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 97 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a]lthough Congress is not bound by international law in enacting statutes, out of respect for other nations, courts should not unnecessarily construe a congressional statute in a way that violates international law.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Any person who employs, uses, persuades, induces, entices, or coerces any minor to engage in ... any sexually explicit conduct for the purpose of producing any visual depiction of such conduct, shall be punished as provided under subsection (d), if such person knows or has reason to know that such visual depiction will be transported in interstate or foreign commerce or mailed, or if such visual depiction has actually been transported in interstate or foreign commerce or mailed.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'knowingly' modifies only 'transports or ships' [and] 'receives' [and,] therefore, does not require that Thomas knew that the pornography he transported, mailed, and received involved a minor.”
3 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.