United States v. Wright’s Empirical Analysis
866 F.3d 899 · 2017
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Brady v. State of Maryland · Delaware v. Van Arsdall · Old Chief v. United States · Pennsylvania v. Ritchie · United States v. Larson
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A]ny reduction from a mandatory life sentence is of such a significant magnitude that excluding this information denie[s] the jury important information necessary to evaluate [the witness's] credibility.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Confrontation Clause has never been recognized as an independent method of enforcing pretrial disclosure of impeachment information.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“a constitutionally compelled rule of pretrial discovery.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.