B. Frank Thomas v. J.D. Cox, Warden

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that there was no agency relationship where the fellow inmate initiated the contact with the authorities and was advised “to listen for but not elicit information”
• stating that agency requires that the actions of an inmate informant be “fairly ‘attributable to the Government’”
• inmate told to let police investigator know if he heard anything else and \to be alert to anything” the inmate \might say”
• absence of reward supports conclusion there was no quid pro quo
• inmate instructed not to ask any questions
• inmate instructed not to ask any questions

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

42 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Anthony N. Matteo v. Superintendent, Sci Albion the District Attorney of the County of Chester the Attorney General of the State of Pennsylvania
  Third Circuit· 1999-03-24· cited 317×
• United States v. Rex Eugene Love, United States of America v. Jerry Wayne Sheppard
  Fourth Circuit· 1998-01-20· cited 240×
• Ian Lightbourne v. Richard L. Dugger, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, Robert A. Butterworth, Attorney General
  Eleventh Circuit· 1987-11-30· cited 175×
• United States v. Lentz
  Fourth Circuit· 2008-05-12· cited 129×
• Ayers v. Hudson
  Sixth Circuit· 2010-10-05· cited 127×
• United States v. Pasquale Panza, Seymour Ringle, Charles Fruscione, Gregory Cappello, Gregory Boutelle, Christopher Merlino
  Second Circuit· 1984-12-18· cited 126×
• People v. Whitt
  California Supreme Court· 1984-08-27· cited 113×
• United States v. Anthony Taylor
  Tenth Circuit· 1986-09-08· cited 104×
• United States v. Johnson
  Tenth Circuit· 1993-09-09· cited 92×
• Manns v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2003-12-17· cited 91×
• State v. Quattlebaum
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 2000-01-24· cited 90×
• United States v. Palacios
  Fourth Circuit· 2012-04-30· cited 82×
• State v. Gordon
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1985-09-10· cited 71×
• Commonwealth v. Hilton
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2005-03-09· cited 52×
• Jackson v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1994-07-15· cited 50×
• People v. Catelli
  California Court of Appeal· 1991-02-26· cited 40×
• Commonwealth v. Reynolds
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1999-04-15· cited 36×
• Commonwealth v. Rancourt
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1987-02-18· cited 34×
• State v. Hernandez
  Tex. App. Ct., 4th Dist. (San Antonio)· 1993-02-03· cited 34×
• State v. Alexander
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1985-08-06· cited 28×

Cites

13 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Massiah v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1964-05-18· cited 3,189×
• Brewer v. Williams
  Supreme Court· 1977-05-16· cited 2,626×
• United States v. Henry
  Supreme Court· 1980-06-16· cited 1,013×
• Sumner v. Mata
  Supreme Court· 1982-03-22· cited 691×
• United States v. Guillermo Novo Sampol, United States of America v. Alvin Ross Diaz, United States of America v. Ignacio Novo Sampol
  D.C. Circuit· 1980-12-09· cited 283×
• United States v. Arshad Ali Malik and Khalid Yousaf Malik
  Seventh Circuit· 1982-06-15· cited 56×
• United States v. James Louis Surridge
  Eighth Circuit· 1982-08-30· cited 54×
• United States v. Joseph Calder, Julius Calder, Thomas Didonato and George Monge
  Second Circuit· 1981-04-20· cited 45×
• Thomas E. Taylor v. William Lombard
  Second Circuit· 1979-10-01· cited 41×
• United States v. Phillip Dale Van Scoy
  Third Circuit· 1981-06-22· cited 37×
• Billy Gale Henry v. United States
  Fourth Circuit· 1978-12-26· cited 24×
• Charley Spry v. Otto C. Boles, Warden, West Virginia State Penitentiary
  Fourth Circuit· 1962-02-13· cited 22×
• Surridge v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1982-11-29· cited 3×