United States v. Thomas’s Empirical Analysis
916 F.2d 647 · 1990
Citation profile
44 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2018 · most notably United States v. Aguilar (1995), United States v. Houlihan (1996)
44 federal appellate ·
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. § 1503
Relies on Bonner v. City of Prichard · Michel v. United States · Houltin v. United States · Bell v. United States · United States v. Bell
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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“corruptly ... endeavors to influence, obstruct, or impede, the due administration of justice.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'The omnibus clause is essentially a catch-all provision which generally prohibits conduct that interferes with the due administration of justice.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the defendant knowingly and intentionally undertook an action from which an obstruction of justice was a reasonably foreseeable result”
2 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.