State v. Wright’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
73 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 75 later decisions — most recently December 2025 · most notably State v. Guthrie (2001), Supreme Pork, Inc. v. Master Blaster, Inc. (2009)
73 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 Estelle v. McGuire · Huddleston v. United States · Old Chief v. United States · California State Board of Equalization v. Western Marina Corp. · Atlantic Richfield Co. v. Newman Oil Co.
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 75 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Evidence of other crimes, wrongs, or acts is not admissible to prove the character of a person in order to show that he acted in conformity therewith. It may, however, be admissible for other purposes, such as proof of motive, opportunity, intent, preparation, plan, knowledge, identity, or absence of mistake or accident.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage“`relevant evidence' means evidence having any tendency to make the existence of any fact that is of consequence to the determination of the action more probable or less probable than it would be without the evidence.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Jones · State v. Bunger“Once the evidence is found relevant ... the balance tips emphatically in favor of admission unless the dangers set out in Rule 403 `substantially' outweigh probative value.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.