United States v. Thomas’s Empirical Analysis
930 F.2d 12 · 1991
Citation profile
23 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently February 2016 · most notably United States v. Beatty (1993), United States v. Sanders (1992)
23 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 18 U.S.C. § 751
Relies on United States v. Carroll · United States v. Ofchinick · United States v. Goldbaum · United States v. Goolsby · United States v. Wright
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“courts have applied a statutory-interpretation analysis to the Guidelines, concluding the unambiguous language of the enhancement provisions does not provide any exception for the offense of escape, indicating the Commission's intent that the enhancement provisions apply.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a double-counting argument can be plausibly made,”
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.