Commonwealth v. Wright’s Empirical Analysis
1893
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 2 district · 36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2017 · most notably Carroll v. United States (1925), Commonwealth v. Gorman (1934)
9 federal appellate · 2 district · 36 state decisions — followed in 17 states
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 Ker v. People of the State of Illinois · United States v. Rauscher · Ex Parte in the Matter of the Commonwealth of Kentucky v. William Dennison Governor and Executive Authority of the State of Ohio · Mahon v. Justice · Waterman 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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We are ... of [the] opinion that for statutory misdemeanors of this kind, not amounting to a breach of the peace, there is no authority in an officer to arrest without a warrant, unless it is given by statute.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.