United States v. Thomas

How courts have described this case

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

• approving search of front seat of car after appellants had been ordered out of vehicle
• “It is to be expected that persons who are being pursued by police officers will seek to hide contraband such as an illegal weapon” (citation omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

18 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Hill v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1982-02-08· cited 122×
• United States v. Mason
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 1982-09-09· cited 31×
• People v. Long
  Michigan Supreme Court· 1982-10-12· cited 26×
• United States v. Johnson
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 1988-04-15· cited 26×
• Brown v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1978-05-12· cited 25×
• Holston v. United States
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 1993-11-15· cited 15×
• United States v. Cousar
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 1975-12-18· cited 12×
• Thomas v. United States
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 1989-01-27· cited 12×
• James v. United States
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 2003-08-14· cited 12×
• State v. Malbeck
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1976-07-23· cited 11×
• Timus v. United States
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 1979-08-13· cited 9×
• Jackson v. United States
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 2012-12-13· cited 9×
• State v. Dechene
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 1975-02-06· cited 7×
• Thompson v. United States
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 1977-01-27· cited 7×
• Haltiwanger v. United States
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 1977-09-13· cited 5×
• United States v. Simpson
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 1975-01-16· cited 5×
• Jacobs v. United States
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 1977-03-28· cited 3×
• Commonwealth v. Little
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1983-07-25· cited 2×

Cites

38 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Terry v. Ohio
  Supreme Court· 1968-06-10· cited 37,942×
• Schneckloth v. Bustamonte
  Supreme Court· 1973-05-29· cited 11,783×
• Coolidge v. New Hampshire
  Supreme Court· 1971-06-21· cited 9,038×
• Carroll v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1925-11-26· cited 7,454×
• Chimel v. California
  Supreme Court· 1969-06-23· cited 6,512×
• Brinegar v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1949-10-10· cited 6,013×
• Adams v. Williams
  Supreme Court· 1972-06-12· cited 5,118×
• Chambers v. Maroney
  Supreme Court· 1970-10-12· cited 4,391×
• Cady v. Dombrowski
  Supreme Court· 1973-06-21· cited 2,465×
• United States v. Rabinowitz
  Supreme Court· 1950-02-20· cited 2,080×
• Preston v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1964-03-23· cited 1,905×
• Cooper v. California
  Supreme Court· 1967-02-20· cited 1,583×
• Almeida-Sanchez v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1973-06-21· cited 1,282×
• Ingram v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1959-06-29· cited 355×
• People v. Superior Court
  California Supreme Court· 1970-12-31· cited 307×
• United States v. Patrick H. Davis
  D.C. Circuit· 1972-03-16· cited 144×
• Jenkins v. United States
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 1971-12-16· cited 76×
• Sammie Jackson, Jr. v. United States
  D.C. Circuit· 1962-02-08· cited 71×
• United States v. Ray Charles Humphrey, A/K/A Ray Humphrey, United States of America v. Hiawatha Mickens
  Tenth Circuit· 1969-04-16· cited 65×
• United States v. Phillip Scott Ragsdale
  Fifth Circuit· 1973-01-17· cited 61×