United States v. Wright’s Empirical Analysis
921 F.2d 42 · 1990
Citation profile
21 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently October 2024 · most notably Government of the Virgin Islands v. Smith (1991), United States v. Dodd (2000)
21 federal appellate ·
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. § 843 (§ 403 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 846 (§ 406 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on United States v. Young · United States v. Russell · Lord Electric Co. v. United States · Mathews v. United States · Alexander v. United States
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“actually implant[ing] the criminal design in the mind of the defendant.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“mere solicitation by the government, without more, is not 'inducement.'”
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.