United States v. Wright’s Empirical Analysis
533 F.2d 214 · 1976
Citation profile
19 federal appellate · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently December 2024 · most notably Commonwealth v. Bethea (1977), State v. Imlay (1991)
19 federal appellate · 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
Relies on Thomas v. United States · United States v. Rogers · United States v. Rodriguez · United States v. Hernandez-Vela
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a trial court may not pressure defendants, who have been found guilty following a trial by jury, to confess their guilt prior to the imposition of sentence”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]he fact that the maximum statutory term was not imposed is not dispositive of the issue”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Vaughn v. State
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.