Wright v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1937
Citation profile
38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently December 2022 · most notably Woodard v. State (1975), Dorsey v. State (1948)
38 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 Cawthon v. State · Frank v. State · Williams v. State · Strickland v. State · Haden 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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he presumption of the law is that a female under [the statutory age] will not voluntarily consent to fornication; and this presumption supplies the force essential to the commission of the crime of rape. [Cits.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Collins
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.