United States v. Wright’s Empirical Analysis
160 F.3d 905 · 1998
Citation profile
26 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions — most recently April 2024 · most notably United States v. Bolden (2003), United States v. Laljie (1999)
26 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 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. § 666 · 26 U.S.C. § 7201
Relies on Durham v. United States · Bartone v. United States · Fazon v. Brown · United States v. Broderson · United States v. Mollica
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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“abused a position of public or private trust, or used a special skill, in a manner that significantly facilitated the commission or concealment of the offense.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“death pending direct review of a criminal conviction abates not only the appeal but also all proceedings had in the prosecution from its inception”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“analytical underpinnings of [not applying the abatement principle to compensatory restitution orders] are not entirely clear... since there is no civil judgment[,] ... and once the conviction is vacated there would seem to be no foundation for the order of restitution.”
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.