United States v. Wright’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently April 2017 · most notably United States v. Kick (1979), United States v. Bradley (1979)
1 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
Applies 10 U.S.C. § 816 · 10 U.S.C. § 921 · 10 U.S.C. § 934 · 18 U.S.C. § 13 (Assimilative Crimes Act)
Relies on Rinaldi v. United States · United States v. Sharpnack · United States v. Green
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.
“Congress did not manifest an intention, as regards prosecution for unlawful entry with a criminal purpose, to limit the military to those structures and places enumerated in Articles 129 and 130 to the exclusion of other places and structures covered by civilian statutes included within the crimes and noncapital provision of Article 134.”
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.