Wright v. People’s Empirical Analysis
1947
Citation profile
61 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 61 later decisions — most recently October 2014 · most notably Maestas v. District Court (1975), Woellhaf v. People (2005)
61 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 John McDonald v. Commonwealth of Massachusetts · Cross v. State · State v. Edelstein · Barr v. State · Grandbouche v. People
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 61 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“circumstances wherein one found guilty of a specific crime may be more severely penalized because of his previous [criminal activities].”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. People v. Martinez
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.