United States v. Thomas’s Empirical Analysis
961 F.2d 1110 · 1992
Citation profile
39 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently February 2012 · most notably United States v. Harvey (1993), United States v. Ashburn (1994)
39 federal appellate · 3 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. § 3553 · 18 U.S.C. § 3742 · 18 U.S.C. § 922 (Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act) · 18 U.S.C. § 924
Relies on McMillan v. Pennsylvania · Williams v. United States · Tristani v. Eastern Air Lines, Inc. · Fussell v. Price · Chitwood v. McLemore
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“an aggravating or mitigating circumstance exists that was not adequately taken into consideration by the Sentencing Commission in formulating the guidelines that should result in a sentence different from that described.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Although the district court did not explicitly state in its written judgment that the foregone fifteen year sentence was a basis for the upward departure, we believe Thomas’ firearm possession played a major, if not predominant, role in the court's sentencing decision.”); Inmates of the Allegheny County Tail v. Wecht, 901 F.2d 1191 , 1198 (3d Cir.1990) (”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Impounded“For parole and probation revocations, the Guidelines specify that the original sentence and the sentence imposed after probation is revoked are added and counted as if they were one sentence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Lee v. Stickman
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.