Wright v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
302 U.S. 583 · 1938
Citation profile
52 federal appellate · 23 district · 63 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 192 later decisions (7 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2023 · most notably Darr v. Burford (1950), Kelo v. City of New London (2005)
52 federal appellate · 23 district · 63 state decisions — followed in 19 states
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 M'Culloch v. State of Maryland · Home Building & Loan Ass'n v. Blaisdell · Whitney v. People of State of California · Brown v. Walker · United States v. Lefkowitz
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 192 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The constitutional provisions have two fundamental purposes; (1) That the President shall have suitable opportunity to consider the bills presented to him; and (2) that the Congress shall have suitable opportunity to consider his objections to bills and on such consideration to pass them over his veto provided there are the requisite votes.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“In such case there is no withholding of the bill from appropriate legislative record for weeks or perhaps months, no keeping of the bill in a state of suspend ed animation with no certain knowledge on the part of the public whether it was seasonably delivered, no causing of any undue delay in its reconsideration. When there is nothing but such a temporary recess the organization of the House and its appropriate officers continue to function without interruption, the bill is properly safeguarded for a very limited time and is promptly reported and may be reconsidered immediately after the short recess is over. The prospect that in such a case the public may not be promptly and properly informed of the return of the bill with the President’s objections, or that the bill will not be properly safeguarded or duly recorded upon the journal of the House, or that it will not be subject to reasonably prompt action by the House, is we think wholly chimerical.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““The Court did not decide, and there was no occasion for ruling', that the clause applies where, the Congress has not adjourned and a temporary recess has been taken by pne House during the session of Congress. Any observations which could be regarded as having a bearing upon the question now before us would be taken out of their proper relation. The oft-repeated admonition of Chief Justice Marshall ‘that general expressions, in every opinion, are to be taken in connection with the case in which those expressions are used,’ and that if they go ‘beyond the case, they may be respected, but ought not to control the judgment in a subsequent suit, when the very point is presented for decision,’ has special force in this instance. Cohens v. Virginia, 6 Wheat. 264, 399 , 5 L. Ed. 257 [290.]””
3 later decisions 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.