Wright v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1954
Citation profile
88 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 96 later decisions — most recently November 2016 · most notably Baker v. State (1956), Parks v. Commonwealth (1980)
88 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 Toler v. Commonwealth · Watkins v. Commonwealth · Abdell v. Commonwealth · Lane v. Commonwealth · Whalen v. Commonwealth
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 96 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`discard the evidence of the accused in conflict with that of the Commonwealth.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““It is a well settled general rule that whatever may be established by direct evidence in a criminal case may also be established by circumstantial evidence. While such evidence should be received with caution, it is legal and competent and entitled to the same weight as direct testimony if it is of such convincing character as to exclude every reasonable hypothesis other than that the accused is guilty. [Citing cases.] ””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“At common law the value of the article stolen must be alleged and proved. Proof that an article has some value is sufficient to warrant a conviction of petit larceny, but where the value of the thing stolen determines the grade of the offense, the value must be alleged and the Commonwealth must prove the value to be the statutory amount.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.