United States v. Thomas’s Empirical Analysis
946 F.2d 73 · 1991
Citation profile
38 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently July 2015 · most notably United States v. Coffman (1996), United States v. Roach (1998)
38 federal appellate · 1 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
Relies on Carnegie v. United States · Scharffe v. Perkins · Mathews v. United States · Bullock v. United States · Tanner 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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“1) the content of the instruction, 2) the length of deliberation after the Allen charge, 3) the total length of deliberation, and 4) 'any indicia in the record of coercion or pressure upon the jury.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“does not strike us as being 'so disproportionate as to raise an inference that the Allen charge coerced the jury.'”
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.