United States v. Wright’s Empirical Analysis
43 F.3d 491 · 1994
Citation profile
34 federal appellate · 8 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 99 later decisions — most recently June 2021 · most notably Hatch v. Oklahoma (1995), Miles v. Dorsey (1995)
34 federal appellate · 8 district · 6 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 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 28 U.S.C. § 2255 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Brady v. State of Maryland · United States v. Bagley · Hill v. Lockhart · Giglio v. United States · Brady 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 99 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A defendant who knowingly and voluntarily pleads guilty waives all non-jurisdictional challenges to his conviction. Having pleaded guilty, a defendant's only avenue for challenging his conviction is to claim that he did not voluntarily or intelligently enter his plea.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“under certain limited circumstances, the prosecution's violation of Brady can render a defendant's plea involuntary.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“A defendant who knowingly and voluntarily pleads guilty waives all non-jurisdictional challenges to his conviction.”
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.