People v. Wright’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
46 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently May 2007 · most notably Wilson v. People (1987), Harris v. People (1995)
46 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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Berger v. United States · Martinez v. People · State v. Oldham · State v. Ray
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘It is unprofessional conduct for the prosecutor [in argument to the jury] to express his personal belief or opinion as to the truth or falsity of any testimony or evidence or the guilt of the defendant.’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. People v. Trujillo
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.