United States v. Wright’s Empirical Analysis
901 F.2d 68 · 1990
Citation profile
19 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently January 2021
19 federal appellate · 1 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 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Michelson v. United States · United States v. Beasley · United States v. Zapata · Hirst v. Gertzen · United States v. Harrod
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“By 'identity' the district court must have meant 'guilt,' and that is an impermissible equation.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“illuminate the particular conduct of which the defendant is accused.”
2 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.