Wright v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
7 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 659
Relies on Brinegar v. United States · Reserve Life Insurance v. Bankers Life & Casualty Co. · Bailey v. United States · Brownell v. Stjepan Bozo Carija · Bell v. United States
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In dealing with probable cause, ... as the very name implies, we deal with probabilities. These are not technical; they are the factual and practical considerations of everyday life on which reasonable and prudent men, not legal technicians, act.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.