United States v. Wright’s Empirical Analysis
16 F.3d 1429 · 1994
Citation profile
104 federal appellate · 7 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 223 later decisions — most recently February 2025 · most notably United States v. Barnett (2005), United States v. Conatser (2008)
104 federal appellate · 7 district · 8 state decisions
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. § 3041 · 18 U.S.C. § 591 · 18 U.S.C. § 924 · 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 846 (§ 406 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · Terry v. Ohio · Illinois v. Gates · Mapp v. Ohio · Aguilar v. Texas
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 223 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“whether, after viewing the evidence in the light most favorable to the prosecution, any rational trier of fact could have found the essential elements of the crime beyond a reasonable doubt.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“may have violated state law is irrelevant as long as the standards developed under the Federal Constitution were not offended”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“we do not weigh the evidence, assess the credibility of the witnesses, or substitute our judgment for that of the jury.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.