United States v. Wright’s Empirical Analysis
826 F.2d 938 · 1987
Citation profile
61 federal appellate · 24 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 109 later decisions — most recently November 2024 · most notably Petzoldt v. Commissioner (1989), United States v. Sullivan (1990)
61 federal appellate · 24 district · 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 3500
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Rakas v. Illinois · Michel v. United States · United States v. Payner · New York v. Ferber
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 109 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“is not merely an error of law or judgment, but an overriding of the law by the exercise of manifestly unreasonable judgment or the result of impartiality, prejudice, bias or ill-will as shown by evidence or the record of proceedings.”
13 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“It would be puerile to suggest that if any part of a statement is [to] be admitted the entire statement must be admitted.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Under the doctrine of completeness embodied in Fed. R. Evid. 106 [the federal analogue to Rule 901.07], it is not required that portions of a writing which are neither explanatory of the previously introduced portions nor relevant to the introduced portions [be] admitted.”
1 later decision 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.