United States v. Wright’s Empirical Analysis
131 F.3d 1111 · 1997
Citation profile
12 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently December 2021 · most notably United States v. McVeigh (1998), United States v. Hernandez (2003)
12 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
Relies on Turner v. United States · Keeble v. United States · Sutherland v. United States · United States v. Blake · United States v. Gibbs
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[а] defendant is not entitled to a lesser-included offense instruction as a matter of course. In order to receive a lesser-included offense instruction, the proof of the element that differentiates the two offenses must be sufficiently in dispute that the jury could rationally find the defendant guilty of the lesser offense but not guilty of the greater offense. ... For an element to be placed sufficiently in dispute so as to warrant a lesser-included offense instruction, one of two conditions must be satisfied. Either the testimony on the distinguishing element must be sharply conflicting, or the conclusion as to the lesser offense must be fairly inferable from the evidence presented.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a jury could rationally find him [guilty] of the lesser offense yet acquit him of the greater.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.