109 Tex. Crim. 164 - Wright v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1928
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently March 1990
5 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 95 Tex. Crim. 226 - Adams v. State · Carlson v. State · 98 Tex. Crim. 42 - Redford v. State · 95 Tex. Crim. 102 - Wimberley v. State · 95 Tex. Crim. 189 - Stovall v. State
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Emphasis is given to the view that the service of the indictment may be waived in cases in which it is held that the facts were sufficient such as to constitute waiver. % * * * # % [W]e are of opinion that both the spirit and purpose of the law is complied with when it is shown that a substantial copy of the indictment is in the possession of the appellant a sufficient length of time before his case is called for trial to enable him to properly prepare his defense and that a literal compliance with and direction that such copy of the indictment be served upon him by the sheriff is not necessary.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Tatmon v. State
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.