Copeland v. Wright’s Empirical Analysis
1947
Citation profile
67 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 67 later decisions — most recently June 2010 · most notably Wilson v. State (1997), Chinquina v. Warden of Maryland House of Correction (1951)
67 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 Olewiler v. Brady · Bernard v. Warden of Maryland House of Correction · House v. Fissell · Edmondson v. Brady · Rexroad v. Warden of Maryland House of Correction
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 67 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Under proper circumstances if the request is made a trial can be delayed while further efforts. are made to get witnesses whose appearance is considered essential to the defense.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Palacorolla 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.