Wright v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently May 1990
6 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 Hopson v. State · Harvey v. State · Jones v. State · Kessler v. State · Franklin 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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Venue is not an ingredient of a criminal offense. The only reason it is necessary to prove venue is to establish the fact that the court trying the criminal case has jurisdiction. Hopson v. State, 201 Tenn. 337 , 299 S.W.2d 11 . In Kelly v. State, 202 Tenn. 660 , 308 S.W.2d 415 , the Court said: ‘Section 9, Article 1, of our Constitution provides for “a speedy public trial, by an impartial jury of the County in which the crime shall have been committed, and shall not be compelled to give evidence against himself.” (Emphasis ours.) ‘In State v. Denton, 46 Tenn. 539 , it is held that a prisoner’s right to be tried in the county where the offense is alleged to have been committed is secured to him by the Constitution, and “he cannot in any case be deprived of that right without his consent.1’ In Franklin v. State, 64 Tenn. 613 , it is said: “The proof of venue must not be left to inference or construction." (Emphasis supplied.)’ “In Harvey v. State, 213 Tenn. 608 , 376 S.W.2d 497 , it is said: ‘The burden was on the prosecution to prove that the offenses were committed in Hamilton County, as laid in the indictment. This has been the rule since the early common law and is embodied in the Constitution of our State: “That in all criminal prosecutions, the accused hath the right to * * * a speedy public trial, by an impartial jury of the County, in which the crime shall have been committed * * (Art. 1, Sec. 9). Italics ours. ‘It is likewise a provision of our statute (T.C.A. sec. 4”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Daniel 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.