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United States v. Wright’s Empirical Analysis

844 F.3d 759 · 2016

Citation profile

5
cited by 5 later decisions
1
states following
June 2025
most recently cited

1 federal appellate · 1 state decisions

Relationships

Applies 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act)

Relies on Carroll v. United States · Chimel v. California · Rakas v. Illinois · Draper v. United States · Rawlings v. Kentucky

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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “Once the uniformed officer detected an odor of marijuana coming from Wright's person, the officer had probable cause to arrest Wright.”
    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.