United States v. Wright’s Empirical Analysis
991 F.2d 1182 · 1993
Citation profile
19 federal appellate · 1 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 70 later decisions — most recently July 2018 · most notably United States v. Braxton (1997), State v. McKinney (2006)
19 federal appellate · 1 district · 4 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) · 26 U.S.C. § 5841 (§ 201 of the Gun Control Act of 1968) · 26 U.S.C. § 5861 (§ 201 of the Gun Control Act of 1968)
Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Rhode Island v. Innis · Estelle v. Smith · Oliver 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 70 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]ntent to distribute the controlled substance can be inferred if the quantity is larger than what normally would be consumed for personal use.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage“The inclusion of tainted evidence does not invalidate a search warrant if enough untainted evidence supports it ....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[v]olunteered statements of any kind are not barred....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.