State v. Wright’s Empirical Analysis
1943
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently November 1976
10 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 State v. Johnson · Hinds v. Atlas Acceptance Corporation · State v. Olson · Mahaney v. State · State v. Morgan.
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““And: ‘Where there has been no wilful default and where there has been a subsequent trial and conviction or acquittal of the accused, the purpose of the bail bond has been satisfied, in which case a proper matter is presented for the exercise of the discretion of the court, and the forfeiture should be set aside * Am.Juris. 120 § 189.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Wilder v. State““ * * * It is the manifest intention of the statute to encourage the giving of bail, in proper cases. The right of bail is so fundamental that it is guaranteed in the Bill of Rights with certain qualifications. . . . ” [Emphasis added]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Holt““* * * But, if at any time before the final adjournment of court the defendant or his bail appear and satisfactorily excuse his neglect, the court may direct the forfeiture to be dis charged upon such terms as may be just. * * *."”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Wilder 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.