Wright v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently January 2013
21 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 Kotteakos v. United States · Bell v. United States · In re Vendo Co. · Johnson v. United States · Fuller 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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“I told you in my instructions, and it’s reiterated on the verdict form that you are to consider the second count of involuntary manslaughter while armed with a pistol only if the defendant has been found not guilty unanimously of Count I. And I presume that since you’re deadlocked, that you’re not unanimous for guilty and you’re not unanimous either for not guilty on the depraved heart second[-]degree murder while armed. And for that reason, I’m going to tell you to go on to Count II of involuntary manslaughter while armed with a pistol in the following way: If after making all reasonable efforts you are or have been unable to reach a verdict on the greater charge of second[-]degree murder while armed, then you may go on to consider the lesser[-]included offense described in Count II of involuntary manslaughter while armed with a pistol. By requiring you to make all reasonable efforts to arrive at a unanimous verdict on second[-]degree murder while armed with a pistol, I do not mean only a superficial or brief attempt to reach a verdict on that charge. I mean a serious and thorough attempt with discussion among all of the jurors and exhausting all reasonable efforts to reach a verdict on the greater offense in Count I of second-degree murder while armed. Only after such efforts and discussions have been completed may you go on to consider the lesser offense in Count II of involuntary manslaughter while armed with a pistol. If I'm correct that you’re at that point and have exh”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“where timely requested, the trial court should give an instruction which allows the jury to consider the lesser included offense, if unable to reach a verdict on the greater offense, after making all reasonable efforts to do so.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[e]ither version of the instruction has advantages and disadvantages for each side in a trial,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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