Wright v. United States’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

3 district · 2 state decisions

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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “The [trial] court denied the second motion without a hearing, ruling that appellant did not provide any factual support for his claims, and that he had failed to explain how the information which allegedly should have been disclosed was ex culpatory or would undermine confidence in the jury’s verdict.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Wright v. Stansberry

2. “[b]oth men were convicted of various offenses, including firstdegree murder while armed and conspiracy to commit that offense.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. United States v. Hammond

3. “the government did not suppress the materials or information on which appellant bases his claims”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Miller v. United States