United States v. Wright’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

6 federal appellate · 4 district · 2 state decisions

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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “Even if [the defendant] could be found to think that the state permit allowed him to purchase guns, he could not think that it permitted him to make ‘false and fictitious statements’ to the federal government, the offense with which he is charged. There could be no merit in the claim that he made a mistake of law. The most that could be said is that a belief on appellant’s part that he had a right to purchase the gun bore on the recklessness vel non with which he signed the federal form. This issue of fact the court resolved against him. Any belief that he may have entertained as to the state permit is not of such great weight as to change our previously expressed opinion that the court’s finding of recklessness was not plainly wrong.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 518 F. Supp. 1082 - United States v. Kozerski