United States v. Wright’s Empirical Analysis
37 F.3d 358 · 1994
Citation profile
45 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions — most recently August 2019 · most notably United States v. Mankarious (1998), United States v. Covarrubias (1995)
45 federal appellate ·
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. § 2113 · 18 U.S.C. § 922 (Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act) · 18 U.S.C. § 924
Relies on Needler v. Valley National Bank of Arizona · Williams v. United States · Moody v. Smith · United States v. Poff · United States v. Lawrence
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.
“defendant committed the offense because of serious coercion, blackmail or duress, under circumstances not amounting to a complete defense.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“involves a threat of physical injury, substantial damage to property or similar injury resulting from the unlawful action of a third party or from a natural emergency.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“was aware of its authority to depart and simply determined, in its discretion, that the evidence presented by Wright did not warrant departure.”
2 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.