Wright v. Steele’s Empirical Analysis
1954
Citation profile
3 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently December 2001
3 federal appellate ·
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. § 2311 (Anti Car Theft Act of 1992)
Relies on Higgins v. United States · Wells v. Attorney General of United States · Higgins v. Binns
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Section 4244 and 4246, Title 18 U.S.C., obviously were enacted as a shield to protect a person, temporarily mentally incompetent, from having to stand trial, upon charges which if committed by a sane person would constitute a federal offense, until such accused has recovered from his temporary incompetence sufficiently to understand the charges against him and to intel ligently assist in his own defense, and care must be taken to see that the period consumed in determining his competence or incompetence to stand trial upon those charges does not approximate, and certainly not exceed, the probable sentence — less ‘good’ time — he would have received and served had he pleaded, or been found, guilty as charged * *”
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.