Wright v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1909
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently August 2005
13 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 Cluverius v. Commonwealth · Johnson v. . People of the State of N.Y. · Long v. State · Rand v. Commonwealth · 3 Va. App. 189 - Armes v. Commonwealth
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It was not the intention of the statute, even in cases to which it applies, by the introduction of proof of former convictions to supply substantive evidence of the guilt of the accused in the principal case, but only to enhance the punishment in the event his guilt should be proved by independent testimony.””
1 later decision 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.