United States v. Wright’s Empirical Analysis
932 F.2d 868 · 1991
Citation profile
109 federal appellate · 14 district · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 167 later decisions — most recently July 2021 · most notably United States v. Soto (1993), United States v. Gonzalez-Lerma (1994)
109 federal appellate · 14 district · 12 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. § 922 (Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act) · 18 U.S.C. § 924 · 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 846 (§ 406 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 851 (§ 411 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Schneckloth v. Bustamonte · Kotteakos v. United States · Chimel v. California · Coolidge v. New Hampshire · Beck v. State of Ohio
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 167 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[f]ailure to file the notice prior to trial deprives the district court of jurisdiction to impose an enhanced sentence.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“occurs when the terms of the indictment are in effect altered by the presentation of evidence and jury instructions which so modify essential elements of the offense charged that there is substantial likelihood that the defendant may have been convicted of an offense other than that charged in the indictment.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“In our circuit, the general rule is to try persons jointly indicted together, and we will not reverse the lower court's decision absent a strong showing of prejudice.”
3 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.