United States v. Thomas’s Empirical Analysis
973 F.2d 1152 · 1992
Citation profile
37 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions — most recently March 2024 · most notably United States v. Pofahl (1993), United States v. Laury (1993)
37 federal appellate · 1 district · 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 Illinois v. Gates · Jones v. United States · Texas v. Brown · Williams v. United States · New York v. Burger
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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Administrative searches conducted pursuant to valid statutory schemes do not violate the Constitution simply because of the existence of a specific suspicion of wrongdoing.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Since [the] criminal instruments were not found at Thomas's ... business, the expectation of finding the [criminal instruments] at Thomas's home was a reasonable inference supporting a determination of probable cause.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“that because the Customs officers were accompanied by a Louisiana State Policeman, and were following an informant's tip that a vessel in the ship channel was thought to be carrying marijuana,”
2 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.