United States v. Thompson’s Empirical Analysis
944 F.2d 1331 · 1991
Citation profile
143 federal appellate · 4 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 183 later decisions — most recently December 2024 · most notably United States v. Saro (1994), United States v. Goines (1993)
143 federal appellate · 4 district · 8 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. § 1952 · 18 U.S.C. § 2510 (Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986) · 18 U.S.C. § 2518 (Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986) · 18 U.S.C. § 924 · 21 U.S.C. § 843 (§ 403 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 846 (§ 406 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Pinkerton v. United States · Missouri v. Continential Insurance Cos. · Harmelin v. Michigan · American Manufacturers Mutual Insurance v. United States · Raphan v. United States
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 183 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“makes it imperative to determine the scope of the conspiratorial agreement each joined.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“One's status as a middleman in a drug distribution chain does not, standing alone, make one a manager or supervisor.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“reasonably foreseeable by the defendant.”
4 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.