United States v. Thomas’s Empirical Analysis
991 F.2d 206 · 1993
Citation profile
55 federal appellate · 3 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 79 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2019 · most notably Beecham v. United States (1994), United States v. King (1997)
55 federal appellate · 3 district · 3 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 921 (Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act) · 18 U.S.C. § 922 (Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act)
Relies on Bordenkircher v. Hayes · American Manufacturers Mutual Insurance v. United States · United States v. Goodwin · Lane v. Peterson · Granito v. United States
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 79 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a]ny conviction which has been expunged, or set aside or for which a person has been pardoned or has had civil rights restored shall not be considered a conviction for purposes of this chapter, unless such pardon, expungement, or restoration of civil rights expressly provides that the person may not ship, transport, possess, or receive firearms.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““If the state sends the felon a piece of paper [or certificate] implying that he is no longer ‘convicted’ and that all civil rights have been restored, a reservation in a corner of the state’s penal code can not be the basis of a federal prosecution. A state must tell the felon [point blank] that [firearms] are not kosher.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“If the felon has not “had civil rights restored,” it simply does not matter what the state law provides concerning possession of firearms. Therefore, only if we had found that Texas did restore Thomas’s" civil rights would we have needed to determine whether Texas expressly prohibited him from possessing firearms.”
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.