1 N.C. App. 479 - State v. Wright’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently August 1998 · most notably 110 N.C. App. 707 - Messick v. Catawba County, NC (1993), State v. Wiegmann (1998)
3 federal appellate · 22 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
Relies on Whitus v. State of Georgia Whitus · Jones v. Georgia · State v. Yoes · State v. Mobley · State v. Wilson
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * The only major restrictions on this common law right, (to resist an unlawful arrest) beyond those already applied to the analogous right of self-defense, were holdings that arrests were valid and resistance to them therefore unlawful if authorized either by a law later declared unconstitutional or by an arrest warrant found sufficient on its face to show its purpose although suffering from some latent defect.”
2 later decisions 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.