United States v. Wright’s Empirical Analysis
309 F.2d 735 · 1962
Citation profile
49 federal appellate · 1 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 64 later decisions — most recently June 2021 · most notably United States v. Lyon (1968), United States v. Lewis (1976)
49 federal appellate · 1 district · 7 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. § 3481
Relies on Stewart v. United States · Knowles v. United States · Langford v. United States · United States v. Di Carlo
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 64 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ . . . the test is whether the language used was manifestly intended or was of such character that the jury would naturally and necessarily take it to be a comment on the failure of the accused to testify.” Knowles v. United States, 224 F.2d 168 (10th Cir. 1955). See also United States v. Fay, 349 F.2d 957 (2nd Cir. 1965); United States v. Wright, 309 F.2d 735 (7th Cir. 1962).”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““You heard the evidence from the witness stand under oath, and as to Defendant William Wright it is un-refuted and undenied. Out of one hundred and seventy million people in the United States not one witness took the stand to refute the Government’s case. Not from New York or anywhere they would come.””
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.