Wright v. Sas’s Empirical Analysis
1947
Citation profile
2 district · 21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently November 2007
2 district · 21 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 Bowser v. State · Bailey 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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Any person . . . who shall enter, or being upon the premises of any other person . . . shall, against the will and consent of said person ... or their agents, wilfully take and carry away any horse, ... or cow, or any carriage, ... or any other vehicle including motor vehicle as defined in the laws of this State relating to such, or property whatsoever, or take and carry away out of the custody or use of any person . . . or his . . . agents, any of the above-enumerated property at whatsoever place the same may be found, shall upon conviction thereof ... be adjudged guilty of a misdemeanor, . . . although it may appear from the evidence that such person . . . took and carried away the property or any portion of the same enumerated in this section, for his . . . present use, and not with the intent of appropriating or converting the same. . . .” (Emphasis added.)”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“"[p]erhaps [it] was not necessary in section 397 [the predecessor of § 349], which already covered ‘any carriage, wagon, buggy, cart or any other vehicle, * * * or property whatsoever.’ Apparently it was thought or feared that, by reason of the association of vehicles (all horse-drawn or ox-drawn, in 1880) with horses, ‘vehicle’ might not include a subsequently invented ‘horseless carriage.’ ””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Any person or persons, his or their aiders or abettors who shall enter, or being upon the premises of any other person, body corporate or politic in the State, shall, against the will and consent of said person or persons, body corporate or politic or their agents, wilfully take and carry away any ... motor vehicle ..., or take and carry away out of the custody or use of any person or persons, body corporate or politic, or his or their agents, any of the above enumerated property at whatsoever place the same may be found, shall upon conviction thereof ... be adjudged guilty of a misdemeanor.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Allen 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.