United States v. Wright’s Empirical Analysis
133 F.3d 1412 · 1998
Citation profile
25 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently August 2012 · most notably United States v. Cunningham (1998), Gillespie v. City of Indianapolis (1999)
25 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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 JEB v. Alabama Ex Rel. TB · Jusino v. Brown · United States v. Scroggins · United States v. Calhoon · United States v. Henry
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“because such a holding would create constitutional infirmities in the Sentencing Guidelines, other circuits have concluded that legal challenges alone cannot form the basis for a denial of a downward adjustment for acceptance of responsibility”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“the district court should not deny the reduction for acceptance simply because the defendant challenges a legal conclusion drawn from the facts the defendant admits”
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.