United States v. Wright’s Empirical Analysis
716 F.2d 549 · 1983
Citation profile
18 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently January 2016 · most notably United States v. Kellington (2000), United States v. Nagra (1998)
18 federal appellate · 2 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 General Public Utilities Corporation v. Susquehanna Valley Alliance · United States v. Wright · Alioto v. Cowles Communications, Inc.
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When a party could have raised an issue in a prior appeal but did not, a court later hearing the same case need not consider the matter.”
10 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.