United States v. Wright’s Empirical Analysis
625 F.2d 1017 · 1980
Citation profile
113 federal appellate · 31 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 172 later decisions — most recently November 2019 · most notably United States v. Natanel (1991), United States v. Slade (1992)
113 federal appellate · 31 district · 5 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 18 U.S.C. § 2421 (White-Slave Traffic Act of 1910 (Mann Act))
Relies on Bornstein v. United States · Larrison v. United States · Falk v. Brennan · United States v. Ronald Leaching, United States of America v. Jerome Tremont
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 172 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) the evidence was unknown or unavailable to the defendant at the time of trial; (2) failure to learn of the evidence was not due to lack of diligence by the defendant; (3) the evidence is material, and not merely cumulative or impeaching; and (4) it will probably result in an acquittal upon retrial of the defendant.”
27 later decisions quote this exact passage“has broad power to weigh the evidence and assess the credibility of both the witnesses who testified at trial and those whose testimony constitutes 'new' evidence.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage“unless the court has manifestly abused its discretion.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.