United States v. Wright’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

19 federal appellate · 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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “In this Circuit, the generally accepted standard is that a new trial ordinarily should not be granted “unless there would be a miscarriage of justice or the weight of evidence preponderates against the verdict.” United States v. Wall, 389 F.3d 457, 466 (5th Cir. 2004) (citing United States v. O’Keefe, 128 F.3d 885, 898 (5th Cir. 1997)). “A new trial is granted only upon demonstration of adverse effects on substantial rights of a defendant.” Id. (citation omitted).”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. United States v. Bennett

2. ““only if the requested instruction (1) was a substantially correct statement of the law, (2) was not substantially covered in the charge as a whole, and (3) concerned an important point in the trial such that the failure to instruct the jury on the issue seriously impaired the defendant’s ability to present a given defense.” 6”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. United States v. Frenando Valdez-Lopez

3. “lawfully engaged in the enforcement of any law or municipal ordinance relating to controlled substances.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. United States v. Santiago-Mendez