United States v. Wight’s Empirical Analysis
968 F.2d 1393 · 1992
Citation profile
66 federal appellate · 9 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 88 later decisions — most recently August 2023 · most notably United States v. Dhinsa (2001), United States v. Lewis (1994)
66 federal appellate · 9 district ·
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
Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · Carnegie v. United States · United States v. Powell · Brewster v. Derwinski · Kuntz v. City of Dayton
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 88 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'knowingly has the power and intention at a given time to exercise dominion and control over an object, either directly or through others.'”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“as long as a convicted felon knowingly has the power and the intention at a given time of exercising dominion and control over a firearm or over the area in which the weapon is located, directly or through others, he is in possession of the firearm”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“It shall be unlawful for any person ... who has been convicted in any court of [ ] a crime punishable by imprisonment for a term exceeding one year to ... possess ... any firearm.”
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.