Thomas v. Goldsmith’s Empirical Analysis
979 F.2d 746 · 1992
Citation profile
45 federal appellate · 1 district · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 72 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2017 · most notably District Attorney's Office for the Third Judicial District v. Osborne (2009), United States v. Hanna (1995)
45 federal appellate · 1 district · 9 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 Brady v. State of Maryland · Coleman v. Thompson · United States v. Agurs · Wainwright v. Sykes · Snyder v. Commonwealth of Massachusetts
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 72 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“at any criminal proceeding in which his presence would contribute to the proceeding's fairness or reliability.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“clearly and expressly state[ ] that its judgment rests on a state procedural bar.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'would be useless or the benefit but a shadow.'”
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.