Wright v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1922
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently March 1979
20 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 Hampton v. State · James v. State · Lewis v. State · Brown v. State · Hughes 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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““While this will dispose of the present indictment, we feel that we ought to say that a conviction ought not to stand upon the evidence in this record. The only incriminating evidence of any consequence is that contained in the testimony of John Eason, who was impeached by every method known to the law while the defendant proved his defense by a large number of unimpeached witnesses, and the evidence clearly preponderates in his favor. If a. new indictment should be found, the evidence for the prosecution should be materially strengthened. ’ ’”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Abele 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.