United States v. Thomas’s Empirical Analysis
969 F.2d 352 · 1992
Citation profile
40 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently June 2024 · most notably United States v. Adipietro (1993), United States v. Taylor (1995)
40 federal appellate ·
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. § 2 · 18 U.S.C. § 3553 · 18 U.S.C. § 924 · 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Mullane v. Central Hanover Bank & Trust Co. · Burns v. United States · United States v. Duarte · United States v. Canada · United States v. Ruiz
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] district court should explicitly state and support, either at the sentencing hearing or (preferably) in a written statement of reasons, its finding that the unconvicted activity bore the necessary relation to the convicted offense.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“all acts and omissions ... that were part of the same course of conduct or common scheme or plan as the offense of conviction.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The defendant need not have been either charged with or convicted of carrying out these other acts.”
3 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.