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.

• concluding that social costs of excluding DNA sample obtained in earlier investigation would outweigh deterrent value
• reasoning that the “hypothesized deterrent effect is simply too attenuated to justify applying the exclusionary rule” since “[t]he underlying conduct that violated the Fourth Amendment took place six or seven years ago”
• discussing Herring's application of exclusionary rule and applying Herring to suppression claims based on alleged police misconduct
• declining to apply the exclusionary rule where the court saw “no evidence . . . that the postal inspectors involved in obtaining and executing the subpoena [for a DNA sample in 2005] knowingly engaged in any misconduct”
• in which the court, which like “[m]ost other circuits” follows the rule announced in James, see United States v. Dessesaure, 429 F.3d 359, 366 (1st Cir. 2005

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

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  First Circuit· 2014-02-28· cited 7×
• United States v. Echevarría-Ríos
  First Circuit· 2014-03-26· cited 3×
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  First Circuit· 2014-03-26· cited 1×
• SHEPARDSON R. BLAIR v. UNITED STATES
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 2015-05-07
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  D. Puerto Rico· 2017-02-10
• Commonwealth v. Polanco
  Massachusetts Superior Court· 2014-05-01
• Commonwealth v. Jeffreys
  Massachusetts Superior Court· 2014-04-23

Cites

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

• Schneckloth v. Bustamonte
  Supreme Court· 1973-05-29· cited 11,783×
• United States v. Leon
  Supreme Court· 1984-09-18· cited 9,230×
• United States v. Calandra
  Supreme Court· 1974-01-08· cited 3,415×
• Nardone v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1939-12-11· cited 1,927×
• Herring v. United States
  Supreme Court· 2009-01-14· cited 1,549×
• Davis v. United States
  Supreme Court· 2011-06-16· cited 1,497×
• United States v. Dionisio
  Supreme Court· 1973-01-22· cited 1,412×
• Hudson v. Michigan
  Supreme Court· 2006-06-15· cited 1,222×
• Vale v. Louisiana
  Supreme Court· 1970-06-22· cited 1,044×
• Bank of Nova Scotia v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1988-06-22· cited 986×
• Winston v. Lee
  Supreme Court· 1985-03-20· cited 733×
• Maryland v. King
  Supreme Court· 2013-06-03· cited 671×
• United States v. Mara
  Supreme Court· 1973-01-22· cited 379×
• United States v. R. Enterprises, Inc.
  Supreme Court· 1991-01-22· cited 301×
• United States v. Thomas Cameron Kincade
  Ninth Circuit· 2004-08-18· cited 244×
• Norman C. Green, Jr., Donald Lee, Glenn Turner, and Dennis E. Jones-El v. Gerald A. Berge and James E. Doyle, Attorney General
  Seventh Circuit· 2004-01-09· cited 126×
• United States v. Weikert
  First Circuit· 2007-08-09· cited 91×
• In Re Grand Jury Matters, Appeal of United States of America
  First Circuit· 1984-12-19· cited 83×
• United States v. Diehl
  First Circuit· 2002-01-09· cited 71×
• In Re United States
  First Circuit· 2006-03-24· cited 66×