United States v. Wright’s Empirical Analysis
145 F.3d 972 · 1998
Citation profile
24 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently July 2023 · most notably United States v. Crenshaw (2004), United States v. Goodson (1999)
24 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 922 (Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act)
Relies on Illinois v. Gates · Wong Sun v. United States · Roviaro v. United States · McCray v. State of Illinois · United States v. Williams
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The reliability of a confidential informant can be established if the person has a history of providing law enforcement officials with truthful information.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he statements of a reliable confidential informant are themselves sufficient to support probable cause for a search warrant.”
1 later decision 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.