Wright v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1928
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently February 1983
11 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 Tiner v. State · Rayburn v. State · Ward v. State · Osborne v. State · Ware 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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The burden of showing an alibi is on the defendant, but if on the whole case the-ttstimony raises a reasonable doubt that the defendant was present when the crime was committed, he should be acquitted. But the jury should scrutinize the testimony of witnesses to see if some of them may not be mistaken as to dates and time when they saw the defendant, and it is proper,for the jury to consider the lapse of time since such occurrence happened, and whether witnesses are likely, after such lapse of time, to.be accurate as to the precise time or hour that they saw the defendant on the night that the crime occurred. In other words, in arriving at your conclusion on this point, the jury should consider whether it may not be true that the defendant was present at the time of the alleged First Degree Rape, and that some Pf the witnesses are honestly mistaken as to the exact time they saw the defendant on that night.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Beasley 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.