United States v. Thomas’s Empirical Analysis
930 F.2d 526 · 1991
Citation profile
107 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 129 later decisions — most recently July 2021 · most notably United States v. Rivera (1993), United States v. Johnson (1992)
107 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. § 1952 · 18 U.S.C. § 3553 · 18 U.S.C. § 3561 · 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 846 (§ 406 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 28 U.S.C. § 994
Relies on Jarecki v. G. D. Searle & Co. · United States v. Ferra · United States v. Lara · United States v. Brady · United States v. Fonner
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 129 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The sentencing judge is ... required to articulate the specific factors justifying the extent of his departure and adjust the defendant's sentence by utilizing an incremental process that quantifies the impact of the factors considered by the court on the defendant's sentence.”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[W]eighing the impact of any given factor on the quality of the defendant's cooperation is an imprecise art, at best,”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“only factors relating to a defendant's cooperation should influence the extent of a departure for providing substantial assistance ....”
5 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.