United States v. Wright’s Empirical Analysis
667 F.2d 793 · 1982
Citation profile
58 federal appellate · 1 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 85 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2025 · most notably Arizona v. Hicks (1987), United States v. Whitten (1983)
58 federal appellate · 1 district · 6 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. § 3105 · 26 U.S.C. § 7201
Relies on Coolidge v. New Hampshire · Holland v. United States · Boyd v. United States · Sedillo v. United States · Stanley v. Georgia
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 85 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The cases indicate that an officer may conduct such an examination if he at least has a 'reasonable suspicion' to believe that the discovered item is evidence.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“"Of course, the extension of the original justification is legitimate only where it is immediately apparent to the police that they have evidence before them; the 'plain view’ doctrine may not be used to extend a general exploratory search from one object to another until something incriminating at last emerges." 403 U.S. 443 , 466, 91 S.Ct. 2022 , 2038, 29 L.Ed.2d 564 (1971).”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“"A search warrant may in all cases be served by any of the officers mentioned in its direction or by an officer authorized by law to serve such warrant, but by no other person, except in aid of the officer on his requiring it, he being present and acting in its execution.” (Italics ours.)”
3 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.