Wright v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
519 F.2d 13 · 1975
Citation profile
31 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently June 2010 · most notably United States v. Howard-Arias (1982), Kelly III v. United States (1994)
31 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 18 U.S.C. § 2 · 18 U.S.C. § 2113 · 18 U.S.C. § 371 · 28 U.S.C. § 2255 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Benton v. Maryland · Sibron v. State of New York Peters · Carafas v. J · Ginsberg v. New York · Hirabayashi 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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“erroneous concurrent sentences are correctable,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““Wright contends first, that his sentencing by the trial judge was clearly illegal because the judge imposed multiple convictions and multiple sentences although only one bank robbery was involved. Since it is well settled that the Bank Robbery Act ( 18 U.S.C. § 2113 ) did not create- separate crimes but merely prescribed alternative sentences for the same crime depending upon the manner in which the crime was perpetrated, we agree that Wright perpetrated a single crime for which a single sentence should have been imposed, and that the trial judge erred in imposing multiple sentences, even though he ordered that they were to run concurrently. [T]he District Court . . . expunged all but one of the sentences originally imposed. Therefore the error committed was subsequently corrected by the District Court. . . . It is clear that erroneous concurrent sentences are correctable, but do not constitute reversible error affecting the conviction.” [Citations omitted.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““In holding, as we do, that the Bank Robbery Act permits only one conviction for a single bank robbery, we emphasize that our holding does not prevent the filing of a multi-count indictment, nor a trial under such indictment. But if such a multi-count case is to be submitted to a jury, the trial judge should instruct the jury that it must first consider the most serious count and, if it finds all of the elements of that count proved, it must convict under that count alone. This would be its sole verdict, no response being necessary as to the less serious counts.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.