United States v. Wright’s Empirical Analysis
363 F.3d 237 · 2004
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 5 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently June 2025 · most notably United Technologies Corp. v. Mazer (2009), United States v. Lee (2010)
12 federal appellate · 5 district ·
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 Pereira v. United States · United States v. Feola · United States v. Yermian · Bohler-Uddeholm America, Inc. v. Ellwood Group, Inc. · United States v. Bailey
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“we need not reach the merits” of the defendant’s Rule 33 argument where no motion for a new trial was filed in the district court because “a judge has no power to order a new trial on his own motion”). 3 . Moreover, the search warrant affidavit and Presentence Report included information from an informant who told law enforcement that Colon controlled a street-level drug organization on the 3400 block of North Water Street. The District Court adopted the report”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“(1) the statement has equivalent circumstantial guarantees of trustworthiness; (2) it is offered as evidence of a material fact; (3) it is more probative on the point for which it is offered than any other evidence that the proponent can obtain through reasonable efforts; and (4) admitting it will best serve the purposes Of these rules and the interests of justice.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“'appl[ies] only when certain exceptional guarantees of trustworthiness exist and when high degrees of probativeness and necessity are present'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Butler v. Comm'r
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.