United States v. Wright’s Empirical Analysis
542 F.2d 975 · 1976
Citation profile
51 federal appellate · 1 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 72 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2009 · most notably United States v. Cook (1979), United States v. Ivic (1983)
51 federal appellate · 1 district · 7 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 Bullock v. United States · Cree v. Goldstein · Federal Energy Administration v. Algonquin SNG, Inc. · Sweet v. United States · United States v. Louisiana
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 72 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We also observe, however, that the message to the district courts of this circuit having been stated in Crouch in January 1976, and having been repeated here, should now be clear and that a district court giving a reasonable doubt instruction containing the challenged equation notwithstanding a Rule 30 challenge can reasonably expect a reversal. We would assume further that district courts in view of the expressed dissatisfaction by this court with the language would sua sponte eliminate the phrase from their set of standard instructions even in the absence of a Rule 30 objection.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“any portion of the charge or omission therefrom”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“. no party may assign as error the giving or failure to give an obstruction unless he objects thereto before the jury retires to consider its verdict, stating distinctly the matter to which he objects and the grounds for his objection.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Goodman v. Epstein
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.