Wright v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
624 F.2d 557 · 1980
Citation profile
27 federal appellate · 5 district · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 63 later decisions — most recently April 2019 · most notably Downs-Morgan v. United States (1985), Major v. State (2002)
27 federal appellate · 5 district · 11 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 21 U.S.C. § 825 (§ 305 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 846 (§ 406 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 28 U.S.C. § 2255 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Boykin v. Alabama · North Carolina v. Alford · Brady v. United States · McCarthy v. United States · Hill 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 63 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In a section 2255 motion, a petitioner has the burden of sustaining his contentions by a preponderance of the evidence.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the motion and the files and records of the case conclusively show that the prisoner is entitled to no relief.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a plea's possible enhancing effect on a subsequent sentence is merely a collateral consequence”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.