United States v. Thomas’s Empirical Analysis
955 F.2d 207 · 1992
Citation profile
21 federal appellate · 5 district · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 55 later decisions — most recently October 2019 · most notably United States v. Seidman (1998), United States v. Kennedy (1995)
21 federal appellate · 5 district · 14 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 Nix v. Williams · National Farmers Union Insurance v. Crow Tribe of Indians · Mullins Coal Co. v. Director, Office of Workers' Compensation Programs · Morgan v. United States · Venturi v. California
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 55 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'[ilf we hadn't done it wrong, we would have done it right,”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“arise from circumstances other than those disclosed by the illegal search itself” (citation and quotation marks omitted)); United States v. Garcia, 496 F.3d 495 , 506 (6th Cir.2007) (noting that the inevitable discovery doctrine”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“the bank money found in the illegal search changed the whole nature of the investigation that followed”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Topanotes
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.