State v. Wright’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2015
4 federal appellate · 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 Bruton v. United States · Ohio v. Roberts · Pointer v. Texas · California v. Green · Dutton v. Evans
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the questions and answers were not recorded on videotape for preservation and perusal by the defense at or before trial; and, blatantly leading questions were used in the interrogation.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The risk with young children is that they may be unable to distinguish between a memory of something which actually happened from a memory of something they imagine happening.... If an interview technique leads a child to imagine an event, the child's memory of that imagined event will be indistinguishable from memories of events which the child actually experienced.... Once this tainting of memory has occurred, the problem is irremediable. That memory is, from then on, as real to the child as any other. [ Id. at 1228 (emphasis added) (citations omitted).]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“A. She would not—oh, she did not talk any further about that. She would not elucidate what exactly—what kind of touching was taking place, or how it was happening. She did, however, say that daddy does do this with me, but he does it a lot more with my sister than with me. 20”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Idaho v. Wright
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.