Thomas v. Brewer’s Empirical Analysis
923 F.2d 1361 · 1991
Citation profile
168 federal appellate · 4 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 245 later decisions — most recently August 2021 · most notably Bonin v. Calderon (1995), Acosta-Huerta v. Estelle
168 federal appellate · 4 district · 3 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. § 2113 · 28 U.S.C. § 1915
Relies on Desist v. United States · Texas v. Louisiana · Weatherford v. Bursey · Director, Office of Workers' Compensation Programs v. Rasmussen · United States v. Behrens
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 245 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“To the extent it is necessary to review findings of fact, the clearly erroneous standard applies.”
19 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“As a general rule, the first sovereign to arrest a defendant has priority of jurisdiction for trial, sentencing, and incarceration.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“jurisdiction over the accused continues uninterruptedly.”
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.