United States v. Wright’s Empirical Analysis
476 F.2d 1027 · 1973
Citation profile
25 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2001 · most notably United States v. Brignoni-Ponce (1975), United States v. Peltier (1975)
25 federal appellate · 1 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 19 U.S.C. § 1581 (Tariff Act of 1930) · 19 U.S.C. § 482 · 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 8 U.S.C. § 1357 (§ 287 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter))
Relies on Carroll v. United States · Isbell Enterprises, Inc. v. Citizens Casualty Co. of New York · United States v. McDaniel · Marsh v. United States · United States v. Maggard
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.
“Any of the officers or persons authorized to board or search vessels may stop, search, and examine ... any vehicle, beast, or person, on which or whom he or they shall suspect there is merchandise which is subject to duty, or shall have been introduced into the United States in any manner contrary to law....”
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.